Döring

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname from the ethnonym/territorial name Thüringen (< mhd

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 196K
  • USUnited States1 in 70Kas Doering

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Döring 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

Sources
179 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Doring in US United States, PH Philippines, AU Australia and Doering in PL Poland, CH Switzerland.

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)

Toponymic surname from the ethnonym/territorial name Thüringen (< mhd. Dürinc, Döringen); also possibly from Düring or Düringen. 13005 tokens.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Döring 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 Döring is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#192≈16,000 est.≈1 in 5KlistedDöring137
US United States—4,754as Doering1 in 70K4.8KDoring179
BR Brazil—8501 in 249K850—3
PL Poland—566as Doering1 in 68K289Doering1
PH Philippines—≈560 est.≈1 in 196K—Doring16
AU Australia—≈190 est.≈1 in 134K—Doring64
CH Switzerland—1901 in 44K190Doering20

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: the dfa-band-4 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)

Döring is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Dőring, Doring

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines

    Also written Doring

  • Polish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Doring, Dőring

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Doring

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt

    Also written Doring

25 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)

Döring is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Toponymic surname; page notes the main distribution for Typ Döring, with Dörge as a variant. No bearer count printed here.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, Toponymic surname: derived from a place name/settlement name; bearers 13005.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, Toponymic surname from a place/region name; bearers 11344.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, Ausgangspunkt der Kurzform Dörig; zeigt n im Suffix -ing.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

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)

175018001850190019502000Heinrich Döring, b. 1789Theodor Döring, b. 1803Julius Döring, b. 1818Heinrich Döring, b. 1859Kurt-Bertram von Döring, b. 1889Hans Döring, b. 1901Werner Döring, b. 1911Manfred Döring, b. 1932Uwe Döring, b. 1946Patrick Döring, b. 1973

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Döring, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Döring
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024190#6,560
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202648—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—48#51,485
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202626—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—26#75,929
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

Where does the name Döring come from?
Toponymic surname from the ethnonym/territorial name Thüringen (< mhd. Dürinc, Döringen); also possibly from Düring or Düringen. 13005 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
How do you pronounce Döring?
A machine transcription gives /dœʁɪŋ/ (IPA) for German.
What does the name Döring mean?
Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from the ethnonym/territorial name Thüringen (< mhd.
In which country does Döring have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Döring in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled döring.
How common is the name Döring?
In Brazil, the national register counted 850 people named Döring, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
How common is Döring compared with other names?
In Germany, Döring is the 192nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Döring” — the 192nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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