Entry № 2680 · Other origin

Dunja Dunja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DOON-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Quince"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Croatian)

A name that means "quince".

Dunja is from the Croatian / Serbian Dunja — quince. Dunja is one of the South Slavic feminine names — central to traditional Croatian Catholic + Serbian Orthodox heritage.

Quince (Croatian-Serbian-South Slavic).

The name in its native script.

Dunja
Transliteration
Dunja
Pronunciation
/ ˈduːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dunja stands.

Dunja 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.

Dunjas before her.

Real people
Dunja Mijatović
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights 2018-2024.
born 1964
In fiction
Dunja
Croatian-Serbian quince.

Names connected to Dunja.

The number behind Dunja.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dunja reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.