Dona - Meaning of Dona

What does Dona mean?

[ 2 syll. do-na, don-a ] The baby girl name Dona is pronounced DOW-Naa- †. Dona has its origins in the African-Hausa and Italian languages. It is used largely in English. From African-Hausa roots, its meaning is 'to drink deeply'.

In addition, Dona is an English contracted form of the English and Scottish Donna.

Forms of Dona include the name Donae, the English Donah, the name Donalda, the name Donaldina, the name Donelda, the name Doni, and the English Donnah.

See also the related categories, hausa, english, and italian.

Dona is rare as a baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1933, 0.039% of baby girls were named Dona. It had a ranking of #301 then. The baby name has suffered a substantial decline in frequency since then, and is used only on a very light scale now. Out of all girl names in its family, Dona was nevertheless the most commonly used in 2018.

Baby names that sound like Dona include Daim, Dami, Damie, Danae, Danay, Danaye, Danean, Danee, Daneen, Daney, Dani, Dania, Danie, Danna, Dannae, Danni, Dannie, Danny, Danu, and Dany.

† Pronunciation for Dona: D as in "day (D.EY)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)"



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