Doda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Galbūt pravardinė iš liet
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/doʊdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Doda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 6.8K
- RORomania≈1 in 42K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Galbūt pravardinė iš liet. doda „plepys, tarškalas“ (LKŽ П 603), plg. dodoti „niekus kalbėti, plepėti“ (ten pat). Tačiau galimi ir kiti ryšiai, plg. lenk. Doda, Dodek (S. Rospond, 1967, p. 194), Dodo (SSNO I 497), vok. Dod, Doodt ir pan. (M. Gottschald, D o b u šin sk a s D ■ Doda 509 Dodikas 1954, p. 232), brus. Додзьу Додзт, rus. Додин (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 133).
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #614 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Doda | 27 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 54K | listed | Doda | 9 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Doda | 8 |
| IN India | — | 339 | 1 in 3.9M | 339 | Doda | 9 |
| US United States | — | 316 | 1 in 1.1M | 451 | Doda | 25 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 29 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 120 | 1 in 70K | 120 | — | 3 |
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); the xinhua-italian-manual register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Doda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Tribal leader
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Russian, "great." Fem of Dod.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Polish, third-person singular future of dodać
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Zulu, to be a man, to act like a man
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rop, daughter
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)
- Prênk Bibë Dodab. 1860ALAlbanian diplomat and prince (1860–1919)
- Bajazid Dodab. 1888ALAlbanian ethnographic writer and photographer
- Xhevdet Dodab. 1906XKYugoslavian partisan (1906–1945)
- Zbigniew Dodab. 1931PLchess player (1931–2013)
- Carol Dodab. 1937USAmerican dancer
- Mesila Dodab. 1971ALAlbanian politician
- Haruna Dodab. 1975NGfootballer
- Armando Dodab. 1988ALAlbanian footballer
- Albert Dodab. 1994ALAlbanian footballer
- Chrothildisnot in their usual namePeerage person ID=672394
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 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 451 | #50,158 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 339 | #12,264 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 316 | #63,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 275 | #67,113 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 120 | #9,586 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 70 | #28,825 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Doda?
- A machine transcription gives /doʊdə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Doda mean?
- Recorded meaning: Galbūt pravardinė iš liet.
- In which country does Doda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Doda in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doda.
- How common is the name Doda?
- In India, the national register counted 339 people named Doda, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
- How common is Doda compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Doda is the 614th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dodaThe 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, “Doda” — the 614th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.