Dõvë
surname · Latin script
Dõvë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 22K
- USUnited States1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 399 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
14,560 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dove in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishdove(measured from records)
- Old English*dūfe“dove“dove, pigeon”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*dūbā(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*dūbǭ“dove“dove, pigeon”(measured from records)
From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dõvë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 14,560 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Dove | 399 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 4 | Dove | 191 |
| EG Egypt | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Dove | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 2 | Dove | 126 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 1 | Dove | 14 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Dove | 119 |
| SG Singapore | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Dove | 9 |
14,560 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dõvë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Dõvë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Dõvë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dove.
- How common is the name Dõvë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,560 people named Dõvë in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%B5v%C3%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dõvë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.