Dok

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dok is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 138K
  • SYSyria≈1 in 373K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dok 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.

Where Dok is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈1,200 est.≈1 in 68K—Dok29
US United States1431 in 2.3M181Dok11
NL Netherlands≈130 est.≈1 in 138K8—2
SY Syria≈52 est.≈1 in 373K—Dok2
IN India121 in 111M12—1
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8——

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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dok is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dók, Dỗk, Dốk

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Dök

  • Dutch surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Germany, United States, Canada

    Languages: Dutch, English, German

    Also written Doek, Doq, Dök, Dôq, Dóq

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dok 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 cdo, to take by force, to seize, to | plunder

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In Indonesian, dock, a fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, dock (fixed structure to which a vessel is secured)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, Hair cut at the tail; the dock.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mkj, to stab, poke, inject

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, while, as long as

    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)

  • Roh Deokb. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Dok
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020181#105,198
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010143#120,901
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000127#124,872
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—26#1,420
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—12#108,399
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#163,601
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

In which country does Dok have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Dok in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dok.
How common is the name Dok?
In the United States, the national register counted 143 people named Dok in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.

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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, “Dok”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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