Doll
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From a medieval nickname for a foolish person, from Middle English dolle ‘dull, foolish’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɑl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Doll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.9K
- USUnited States1 in 34K
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 Doll 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Doell in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)
From a medieval nickname for a foolish person, from Middle English dolle ‘dull, foolish’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Doll is read(measured from records)
Doll is one spelling over 2 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.
- English72%
From a medieval nickname for a foolish person, from Middle English dolle ‘dull, foolish’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from OE dol 'foolish'; first attested Lewingus Dol 1066 Winton
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German11%
firm, hard, forceful, strong (of actions, also of emotions)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronym zu Berthold mit Assimilation zu ll; ld/ll-Varianz; 3245 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Atlasplate zu Dentale: Plosive; Schreibvarianten Doll/Dol. 3245 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
Doll 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Doll | 24 |
| US United States | — | 9,749 | 1 in 34K | 9.7K | Doll | 388 |
| DE Germany | #608 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | listed | Doll | 153 |
| IN India | — | 4,520as Dhole | 1 in 293K | 4.5K | Doll | 48 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Doell | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,383as Dol | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Doll | 26 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Doll | 16 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Doll | 32 |
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; the dfa-band-2 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Dollb. 1912GBBritish physician and epidemiologist (1912–2005)
- Bob Dollb. 1919USAmerican basketball player (1919–1959)
- Caren Marsh Dollb. 1919USactress, dancer, last surviving actress from the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz"
- Dora Dollb. 1922FRFrench actress (1922–2015)
- Birgit Dollb. 1958ATAustrian actress (1958–2015)
- Thomas Dollb. 1966DEGerman association football manager (born 1966)
- Barbara Dollb. 1972FRFrench pornographic actress (1972–2023)
- Diana Dollb. 1976SKSlovak pornographic actress
- Tiffany Dollb. 1986FRFrench pornographic actress
- Benedikt Dollb. 1990DEGerman biathlete
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.7K | #3,646 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.7K | #3,587 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.6K | #3,429 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 213 | #9,770 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 32 | #6,566 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #180,008 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Doll mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for a foolish person, from Middle English dolle ‘dull, foolish’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Doll?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Doll have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Doll in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doll.
- How common is the name Doll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,749 people named Doll in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Doll compared with other names?
- In Germany, Doll is the 608th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Doll” — the 608th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.