Dua is from the Albanian word for "love" — also from the Arabic du'ā (دُعَاء), the personal supplicatory prayer in Islam. Dua Lipa (born 1995) — English-Albanian singer-songwriter; three Grammy Awards including Best New Artist (2019), Pop Vocal Album (2021), and Pop Duo/Group Performance (2019). *Her 2020 album Future Nostalgia — released in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic — won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album and is credited with sparking the disco revival in popular music. "New Rules" (2017), "Don't Start Now" (2019), "Levitating" (2020). The Albanian-language Service to the Nation Medal. Her Service95 newsletter and podcast launched in 2022. Dua is also the title of a 2017 Albanian album by her father Dukagjin Lipa*.
Featured throughout 2020s pop music.
Dua does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dua reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.