Dóda

surname · Latin script

Dóda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Definite form of Dodë; Dodë + -a (“the”). Related to archaic Albanian name Dedalij (Albanian mythology).

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 70K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 175K
  • SESweden1 in 243K

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.

India (measured from records)

339 people

Record sources
71 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Doda 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)

Definite form of Dodë; Dodë + -a (“the”). Related to archaic Albanian name Dedalij (Albanian mythology).

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dóda 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 Dóda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India3391 in 3.9M339—2
US United States3161 in 1.1M451Doda10
PL Poland2191 in 175K117——
CH Switzerland1201 in 70K120—1
ES Spain641 in 781K64——
SE Sweden421 in 243K42——
NO Norway201 in 273K20——
CZ Czechia141 in 764K14——

339 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Dóda is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Italy

    Also written Doda, Ďodä

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dóda under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dóda mean, and where does it come from?
Definite form of Dodë; Dodë + -a (“the”). Related to archaic Albanian name Dedalij (Albanian mythology). Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary.
In which country does Dóda have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 339 people named Dóda, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Dóda most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dóda is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dóda?
In India, the national register counted 339 people named Dóda, about 1 in 3.9 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, “Dóda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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