Duma

See also: duma, d'uma, dumà, dumā, dumă, dumą, and dûma

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Polish Duma, Romanian Duma or Ukrainian Дума (Duma).

Proper noun

Duma (plural Dumas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Duma is the 38155^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 581 individuals. Duma is most common among White (78.31%) individuals.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Duma (plural Dumas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of duma (“Russian legislative assembly”)
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 98:

     Barricades were raised, Dumas were convened and dissolved, emergency laws were enacted, mystics sought escape routes to the beyond—and meanwhile this little group of captains and colonels, nicknamed the “Young Turks,” developed their ideas, read the works of German generals, and gathered strength.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Duma”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 497.

Anagrams

• Damu, Maud, maud, muda