Dobre
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Dobre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname.
- RORomania≈1 in 770(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 36K
- ESSpain1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 774 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dobre is found
(measured from records)Dobre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #46 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 774 | — | Dobre | 103 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,274 | 1 in 39K | 1.3K | Dobre | 41 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Dobre | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | 300 | 1 in 706K | 300 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 211 | 1 in 1.6M | 251 | Dobre | 114 |
| NO Norway | — | 74 | 1 in 74K | 74 | Dobre | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 59 | 1 in 36K | 59 | — | 1 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Dobre is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "good."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Jewish (E. Yiddish): from the Slavonic element dobro good, kind. Variant: Dobe. Pet form: Dobke .
as a word
In Polish, good, goodness (that which is in accordance with the principles of morality, ethics, and religion)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of dobrar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, double
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, well
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)- Anișoara Dobre-Bălanb. 1966RORomanian rower
- Aurelia Dobreb. 1972RORomanian artistic gymnast, choreographer, and dance teacher (born 1972)
- Alex Dobreb. 1998RORomanian association 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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dobre?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Dobre in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dobre. After it come Spain, Italy, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dobre?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,274 people named Dobre, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Dobre compared with other names?
- In Romania, Dobre is the 46th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dobre?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dobreThe 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, “Dobre” — the 46th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.