Doek
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Doek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Dutch, recorded as cloth, linen, fabric.
- NLNetherlands1 in 30K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 2M
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.5M
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 Doek itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
584 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dok in CH Switzerland.
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)
cloth, linen, fabric
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Doek is read(measured from records)
Doek is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Dutch36%
cloth, linen, fabric
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
A cloth.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hebrew8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Doek in Hebrew.
- German6.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Doek in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 584 | 1 in 30K | 584 | Doek | 27 |
| US United States | 143as Dok | 1 in 2.3M | 181 | Doek | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Doek | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Doek | 2 |
| IN India | 12as Dok | 1 in 111M | 12 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 8as Dok | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Dok | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 4as Dok | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 1 |
584 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Doek is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In za, to fall; to drop
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, cloth, fabric
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Doek mean, and where does it come from?
- cloth, linen, fabric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Doek?
- In the etymology graph, Tuch is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Doek have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 584 people named Doek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doek.
- Where is Doek most common?
- Doek is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Doek?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 584 people named Doek in 2007, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doekThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Doek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.