Dober
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
Dober is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 445 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Dorset; also Lancs. See Dawber .
- CHSwitzerland1 in 21K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 29Kfew records
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
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 Dober 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
445 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Dorset; also Lancs. See Dawber .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dober is found
(measured from records)Dober 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 | 445 | 1 in 748K | 491 | Dober | 170 |
| CH Switzerland | 397 | 1 in 21K | 397 | Dober | 26 |
| AT Austria | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Dober | 24 |
| GH Ghana | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Dober | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Dober | 42 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Dober | 40 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
445 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 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Dober is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, genitive plural of dobro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, good
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, besoin
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Johann Leonhard Doberb. 1706DEGerman missionary (1706-1766)
- Con Conradb. 1891USnot in their usual nameAmerican songwriter, record producer (1891-1938)
- Andreas Doberb. 1986ATassociation football player
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dober mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Dorset; also Lancs. See Dawber . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dober?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 445 people named Dober, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dober. After it come Switzerland, Austria, Ghana and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dober most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dober is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dober?
- In the United States, the national register counted 445 people named Dober in 2010, about 1 in 748 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/doberThe 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, “Dober” — ranked 41722nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.