Dobos

surname · Latin script

Meaning: drummer (one who plays the drums)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 7.6K
  • RORomania≈1 in 7.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,800 people, est.

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

drummer (one who plays the drums)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dobos 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 Dobos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈5,800 est.≈1 in 242K—Dobos1
RO Romania—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Dobos26
HU Hungary#128≈2,600 est.≈1 in 3.8K9.9KDobos119
US United States—1,0801 in 308K1.1KDobos80
SK Slovakia#5277161 in 7.6K716Dobos38
CZ Czechia—1601 in 67K160Dobos18
HR Croatia—1111 in 38K111—1

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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Dobos is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Doboš, Doboș, Doboş

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Doboş

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Romania, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Doboš

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Doboş, Doboš, Doboș

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland

    Also written Doboš

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Romania

    Also written Dobõš, Doboș, Doboš

  • Finnish name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Doboš, Dobõš

31 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000C. József Dobos, b. 1847Károly Dobos, b. 1902Dezső Dobos, b. 1923Attila Dobos, b. 1941Ildikó Dobos, b. 1942Krisztina Dobos, b. 1949Tamás Dobos, b. 1973Julius Dobos, b. 1976Eve Angel, b. 1983Áron Dobos, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Dobos,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Dobos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201110K#98
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201210K#98
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)201310K#98
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)20149.9K#99
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025)20159.9K#100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,011
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,515
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,639
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6#111,895
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—6#20,071
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Dobos mean, and where does it come from?
drummer (one who plays the drums) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Dobos?
A machine transcription gives /ˈdoʊboʊz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Dobos have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Dobos in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dobos.
How common is the name Dobos?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,080 people named Dobos in 2010, about 1 in 308 thousand residents.
How common is Dobos compared with other names?
In Hungary, Dobos is the 128th most common surname of 88,284 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, “Dobos” — the 128th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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