Dőū
surname · Latin script
Dőū is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 姓 , CS) (1127) 《中 日 姓氏 汇编 》 (401).
- ESSpain1 in 273K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dőū itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)
11,211 named Dao, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dao in US United States and สะเดา in TH Thailand.
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)姓 , CS) (1127) 《中 日 姓氏 汇编 》 (401).
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dőū is found
(measured from records)Dőū 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 | 11,211as Dao | 1 in 30K | 14K | Dao | 56 |
| TH Thailand | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 82K | register #189,389 | สะเดา | 98 |
| NO Norway | 324as Dao | 1 in 17K | 324 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 292as Dao | 1 in 35K | 292 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | 216as Dao | 1 in 26K | 216 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 203as Dao | 1 in 29K | 203 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 183 | 1 in 273K | 183 | — | 1 |
11,211 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 Dőū mean, and where does it come from?
- 姓 , CS) (1127) 《中 日 姓氏 汇编 》 (401). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dőū?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Dao, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand, Norway, Sweden and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dőū most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dőū is densest in Spain — about 1 in 273 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dőū?
- In Spain, the national register counted 183 people named Dőū, about 1 in 273 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C5%91%C5%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, “Dőū”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.