Doto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of dotar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/doto/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Doto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 9.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 451K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 620Kfew records
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)first-person singular present indicative of dotar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Doto is found
(measured from records)Doto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 1 | Doto | 15 |
| US United States | 466 | 1 in 714K | 469 | Doto | 152 |
| IT Italy | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 133K | listed | Doto | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 284 | 1 in 745K | 284 | Doto | 28 |
| KE Kenya | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 420K | listed | Doto | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 497K | — | Doto | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 26 | 1 in 451K | 26 | Doto | 2 |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the swahili-book-names-zawawi-1993 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)Doto is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
second of twins
as a nameThe book of African names
one of the twins
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of dotare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, inflection of dotais:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, to endow
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)- Paolo Dotob. 1958ITItalian association football player (1958-2016)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Doto mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of dotar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Doto?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /doto/; in Swahili /dɔtɔ/; in Portuguese /dɔtu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Doto?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Doto in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doto. After it come United States, Italy, Brazil and Kenya; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Doto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 466 people named Doto in 2010, about 1 in 714 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Doto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dotoThe 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, “Doto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.