Doboš

surname · Latin script

Meaning: drum

/d̪oboʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Doboš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 38K
  • CZCzechia1 in 67K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,080 people, 2010

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dobos 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(measured from records)

drum

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Doboš 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 Doboš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0801 in 308K1.1KDobos12
SK Slovakia7161 in 7.6K716——
ES Spain2361 in 212K236——
CZ Czechia1601 in 67K160——
HR Croatia1111 in 38K111Doboš20
FI Finland431 in 130K43——
UY Uruguay261 in 130K26——

1,080 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

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

  • Hungarian surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Spain, Romania

    Languages: Hungarian, Spanish, Slovak

    Also written Dobos, Doboş, Doboș, Dobõš, Dóbos

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dobos, Doboș, Doboş

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Doboş, Dobos, Doboș

  • Ukrainian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Slovak

    Also written Добош, DoBOsh, Dobos, Dobosz, Добос

  • Finnish name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Dobos, Dobõš

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Dobos, Doboş

2 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)

Doboš is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, bubanj

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In se, inflection of doahput:

    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)

190019201940196019802000Imrich Doboš, b. 1917Zoltán Doboš, b. 1933Jozef Doboš, b. 1956Josef Doboš, b. 1961Rastislav Doboš, b. 1963Bohumil Doboš, b. 1989

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)

FormalPoštovani Doboš,Dear Doboš, (English)
InformalPoštovani Doboš,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Doboš
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995716—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—160#10,561
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021111#7,284
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202187—

Reference works 2

  • 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 Doboš mean, and where does it come from?
drum Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Doboš?
A machine transcription gives /d̪oboʃ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Doboš have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Doboš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dobos.
Where is Doboš most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Doboš is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Doboš?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,080 people named Doboš in 2010, about 1 in 308 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Doboš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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