Dodó

surname · Latin script

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

Dodó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lovable, large and round.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 329K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 734K
  • LVLatvia1 in 941K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

59 people, 2022

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 329K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dodo in PK Pakistan, NL Netherlands.

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)

lovable, large and round

Sources 3

  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
  • Biblical Names Compiled Database
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dodó 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 Dodó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil591 in 3.6M1K—1
PK Pakistan≈55 est.≈1 in 4.2M—Dodo8
SE Sweden311 in 329K31—1
PL Poland161 in 2.4M16—1
NL Netherlands101 in 1.7M10Dodo7
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——
LV Latvia21 in 941K2——

59 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)

Dodó is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Pakistan

    Also written Dodo, Dodò, Dòdò, Dòdo, Dôdö

  • French given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Belgium

    Also written Dodo, Dódó, Dodõ, Dödo, Dôdo

9 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dodó 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 Dodó mean, and where does it come from?
lovable, large and round Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and Biblical Names Compiled Database and 1 other source.
In which country does Dodó have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 59 people named Dodó, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Dodó most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dodó is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 329 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dodó?
In Brazil, the national register counted 59 people named Dodó in 2022, about 1 in 3.6 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, “Dodó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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