독
surname · Hangul script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
독 is a surname written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 3M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 42Kas Dock
- SESweden1 in 71Kas Dock
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than 독 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)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0M (inferred from the name graph)
1,639 named Dock, 2010
Highest-authority source
South Korea
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dock in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
독 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 | — | 1,639as Dock | 1 in 203K | 1.6K | Dock | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | 278as Dock | 1 in 42K | 278 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 143as Dock | 1 in 71K | 143 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 54as Dock | 1 in 3.9M | 54 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | #424 | 17 | 1 in 3M | 17 | 독 | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9as Dock | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3as Dock | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
1,639 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants | 2015 | 17 | #176 |
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname x bon-gwan (ancestral seat) population | 2015 | 12 | #8,070 |
| KR South Korea | KOSIS 2015 Census — surname x bon-gwan (ancestral seat) population | 2015 | 5 | #12,240 |
Reference works 1
- KOSIS Korea 2015 census surnames + clans (bon'gwan)
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 독 have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Dock, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is 독 most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, 독 is densest in South Korea — about 1 in 3.0 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name 독?
- In South Korea, the national register counted 17 people named 독 in 2015, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is 독 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 독 is the 424th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about 독?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EB%8F%85The 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, “독” — the 424th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.