Dunja
Dunja is a girl name of Serbian origin, meaning The quince fruit.
What Dunja means
The quince fruit.
Dunja sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Dunja comes from
Serbian names come from the Slavic tradition, often built on roots meaning peace, glory, or love, and frequently ending in the familiar Slavic suffixes.
Dunja is recorded as Serbian in origin. Browse other Serbian names.
How popular is Dunja?
Dunja is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Dunja is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Dunja
The thread we file Dunja under is the natural world — worth following if that association is what caught your attention in the first place.
Themes: Nature
Names like Dunja
These share Dunja's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Snezana — Snowy; pure as snow.
- Vesna — Slavic goddess of spring.
- Vuk — Wolf.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Aurora — Dawn; goddess of sunrise.
- Ava — Life, bird, living one.
- Chloe — Young green shoot; blooming.
- Dahlia — Valley flower.
- Dalia — Grapevine; gentle.
- Deborah — Bee; an industrious leader.
- Defne — Laurel tree.