Doe
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from OE dā 'doe'; first attested Robert le Do(e) 1188–90 P (Sf). Also perhaps from Eu, Seine-Inférieure; first attested William Do 1220 Cur (Ess)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/doʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Doe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 30th most common surname.
- GHGhana≈1 in 675(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 884
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 1.1K
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 Doe 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)
- #940 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 418 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 675 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Delphine in CM Cameroon.
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 OE dā 'doe'; first attested Robert le Do(e) 1188–90 P (Sf). Also perhaps from Eu, Seine-Inférieure; first attested William Do 1220 Cur (Ess)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Doe is read(measured from records)
Doe 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.
- English54%
from OE dā 'doe'; first attested Robert le Do(e) 1188–90 P (Sf). Also perhaps from Eu, Seine-Inférieure; first attested William Do 1220 Cur (Ess)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
English surname meaning ‘doe/deer’, like French Cerf.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
ME do doe (OE da; for the change in the vowel cf. Roper). 2. habitation name, with fused preposition de, from Em in Seine-Maritime, whose name either represents a dra¬ matic reduction of Latin Augusta ‘(city of) Augustus’ (cf. Dalton 2), or else derives from the Gmc element auwa water-meadow, island.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.0%
inflection of doar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Doe 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 | #420 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 884 | — | Doe | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | #616 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Doe | 26 |
| GH Ghana | #30 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 675 | — | Doe | 64 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | listed | Doe | 57 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #270 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Doe | 11 |
| US United States | — | 30,301as Do | 1 in 11K | 263K | Doe | 418 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Delphine | 33 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #77 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Doe | 30 |
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 2020. 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)
Doe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Western Frisian, then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)
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)
- Nicholas B. Doeb. 1786USU.S. Representative from New York
- Mary L. Doeb. 1836USAmerican suffragist, temperance reformer and business woman
- Edward M. Doeb. 1850USAmerican lawyer and judge (1850-1919)
- Jens A. Doeb. 1891USUnited States Army general in World War II
- Thomas Doeb. 1912USbobsledder (1912–1969)
- Samuel Doeb. 1951LR21st President of Liberia
- Francis Doeb. 1985LRLiberian footballer
- Lawrence Doeb. 1986LRLiberian association football player
- Scott Doeb. 1988GBEnglish association football player (born 1988)
- Lindsey DoeUSAmerican sexologist and YouTuber
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 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 263K | #78 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,972 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Doe mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE dā 'doe'; first attested Robert le Do(e) 1188–90 P (Sf). Also perhaps from Eu, Seine-Inférieure; first attested William Do 1220 Cur (Ess) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Doe?
- A machine transcription gives /doʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Doe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 264 thousand people named Doe in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doe.
- How common is the name Doe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 30,301 people named Do in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Doe compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Doe is the 420th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doeThe 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, “Doe” — the 420th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.