Dogge
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete spelling of dog
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Dogge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 78K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 451K
- USUnited States≈1 in 17Mfew records
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
222 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)present plural of dwaan
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dogge is read
(measured from records)Dogge is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English47%
Obsolete spelling of dog.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Western Frisian33%
present plural of dwaan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German19%
boarhound, mastiff
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dogge in Dutch.
- French8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dogge in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dogge 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 222 | 1 in 78K | 222 | Dogge | 16 |
| DE Germany | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Dogge | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 26 | 1 in 451K | 26 | Dogge | 5 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Dogge | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Dogge | 12 |
222 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Dogge is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, an ordinary dog, especially a hunting dog
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 222 | #9,384 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 26 | #40,644 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- Where does the name Dogge come from?
- present plural of dwaan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Dogge mean?
- In English, Obsolete spelling of dog.
- In which country does Dogge have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 222 people named Dogge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dogge.
- Where is Dogge most common?
- Dogge is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dogge?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 222 people named Dogge in 2007, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doggeThe 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, “Dogge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.