Dōda
surname · Latin script
Dōda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 339 people, counted by Instate. Recorded meaning: Definite form of Dodë; Dodë + -a (“the”). Related to archaic Albanian name Dedalij (Albanian mythology).
- CHSwitzerland1 in 70K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 175K
- SESweden1 in 243K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
339 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
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, IN India, 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)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 the surname Dōda is found
(measured from records)Dōda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 339 | 1 in 3.9M | 339 | Doda | 36 |
| US United States | 316 | 1 in 1.1M | 451 | Doda | 129 |
| PL Poland | 219 | 1 in 175K | 117 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 120 | 1 in 70K | 120 | Doda | 7 |
| ES Spain | 64 | 1 in 781K | 64 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 42 | 1 in 243K | 42 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | — |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dōda 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dōda?
- In India, the national register counted about 339 people named Dōda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doda. After it come United States, Poland, Switzerland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dōda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dōda 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 Dōda?
- In India, the national register counted 339 people named Dōda, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C5%8DdaThe 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, “Dōda” — ranked 12264th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.