Doo

org · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Doo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. probably a variant of Dew .

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. probably a variant of Dew .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Doo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Doo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—719—9
BR Brazil—297——
IN India—108—11
SE Sweden—16——
FI Finland—15——

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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Doo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Ghana, United Kingdom

    Also written Döö, Doeoe, Dòò, Doõ, Dôô

  • Korean given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea

    Also written 두희, Dŏŏ, Dôò, Dôo

  • Portuguese surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Doó, Dóó, Dõõ, Dôo, Döö

  • Serbian surname104 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Russia

    Languages: Serbian, Russian, Bosnian

    Also written Доо, До, Ду, Tu, Doe

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Do'O

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Do'O, Do-O, Döo, Dóõ, Doô

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800185019001950George Thomas Doo, b. 1800Du Yuming, b. 1904Soon Ja Du, b. 1941
  • George Thomas Doob. 1800GBBritish engraver (1800-1886)
  • Du Yumingb. 1904CNnot in their usual nameChinese lieutenant general (1904–1981)
  • Soon Ja Dub. 1941KRnot in their usual namemurderer
  • Du Jingjiannot in their usual nameChinese chancellor

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 20 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Doo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—23K#5
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020719#34,023
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010514#42,237
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—513#1,851
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000435#46,153
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020341#22,704
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—297#26,631
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—242#14,245
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—227#1,964
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—221#3,596
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—108#26,972
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—107#4,563

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Doo mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. probably a variant of Dew . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Doo have the most bearers?
Doo is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Doo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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