Dobie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Originally a pet form of Robert; recorded as a surname from Thomas Doby of Peebles, 1471
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdɑbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dobie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 363K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 547K
- BEBelgium1 in 733K
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)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 363K (inferred from the name graph)
917 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Originally a pet form of Robert; recorded as a surname from Thomas Doby of Peebles, 1471.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dobie 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 | 917 | 1 in 363K | 969 | Dobie | 34 |
| AR Argentina | 21 | 1 in 2.2M | 21 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | Dobie | 5 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
917 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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dobie 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 English, A Dobermann dog.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, definite nominative/vocative masculine plural of dobs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of dobi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, dative/locative singular of doba
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)
- Gil Dobieb. 1879USAmerican football player and coach, basketball coach (1879–1948)
- Armistead Mason Dobieb. 1881USUnited States federal judge (1881–1962)
- Beatrix Dobieb. 1887NZNew Zealand painter (1887–1944)
- J. Frank Dobieb. 1888USAmerican writer (1888-1964)
- Don Dobieb. 1927AUAustralian politician (1927–1996)
- Alan Dobieb. 1932GBactor
- Kathy Dobieb. 1955USAmerican journalist
- Mark Dobieb. 1963GBEnglish footballer (born 1963)
- Scott Dobieb. 1978GBassociation football player (born 1978)
- Luke Dobieb. 1992GBEnglish footballer (born 1992)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 969 | #26,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 917 | #26,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 879 | #26,163 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 21 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #54,342 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,616 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Dobie mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a pet form of Robert; recorded as a surname from Thomas Doby of Peebles, 1471. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dobie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɑbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dobie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 917 people named Dobie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dobie.
- Where is Dobie most common?
- Dobie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 363 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dobie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 917 people named Dobie in 2010, about 1 in 363 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dobieThe 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, “Dobie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.