Dodge
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval male personal name Dogge, a pet-form of Robert; or from a nickname based on Middle English dogge 'dog'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dodge is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 504K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 976K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dodge itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 441 (measured from records)
- 1 in 504K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 도지 in KR South Korea.
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)
from the medieval male personal name Dogge, a pet-form of Robert; or from a nickname based on Middle English dogge 'dog'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dodge 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Dodge | 9 |
| US United States | 660 | 1 in 504K | 22K | Dodge | 441 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 976K | listed | Dodge | 140 |
| AU Australia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | 98 |
| KR South Korea | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | 도지 | 6 |
| GR Greece | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Dodge | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | 8 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Dodge 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, Dogge, a pet form of Roger. 2. possibly also a nickname from ME dogge dog (OE doega, dogga). Vars.: Doi(d)ge (SW England). Dims.: Dodgin, Dodgeo(o)n. Patrs.: Dodgs(h)on, Dodgshun.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, pet-name for Roger, rhymed on Rodge and Hodge; first attested Doge filius Arnaldi 1196 P (Y)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In ibb, The pot slants down, hyhafbp? Will you duck? hyhdap. You'll be unbeatable; you'll be notorious
as a wordIbibio Dictionary. Final Report
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)
- Henry Dodgeb. 1782USAmerican politician and general (1782-1867)
- William E. Dodgeb. 1805USAmerican politician (1805-1883)
- Augustus C. Dodgeb. 1812USAmerican politician (1812-1883)
- Mary Mapes Dodgeb. 1831USAmerican children's writer (1831-1905)
- Grenville M. Dodgeb. 1831USUnion Army general (1831–1916)
- John Francis Dodgeb. 1864USAmerican businessman (1864–1920)
- Horace Elgin Dodgeb. 1868USAmerican businessman (1868–1920)
- Mabel Dodge Luhanb. 1879USAmerican patron of the arts (1879-1962)
- Joseph Dodgeb. 1890USbanker (1890-1964)
- Lucien Dodgeb. 1984USAmerican voice actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 22K | #1,635 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 22K | #1,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,650 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Dodge mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval male personal name Dogge, a pet-form of Robert; or from a nickname based on Middle English dogge 'dog' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Dodge?
- In the United States, the national register counted 660 people named Dodge in 2020, about 1 in 504 thousand residents.
- In which country does Dodge have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 719 people named Dodge in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dodge.
- Where is Dodge most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dodge is densest in the United States — about 1 in 504 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dodgeThe 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, “Dodge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.