Dolling
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE *dolling ‘the dull one’; first attested William Dolling 1243 AssSo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dˈɒlɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dolling is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 90K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 170K
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 Dolling 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Doelling in US United States, CL Chile, CD Congo - Kinshasa and Dölling in DE Germany.
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 OE *dolling ‘the dull one’; first attested William Dolling 1243 AssSo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dolling 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Dölling | 56 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Doelling | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Dolling | 111 |
| US United States | 286as Doelling | 1 in 1.2M | 312 | Doelling | 144 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Dolling | 78 |
| CL Chile | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Doelling | 2 |
| PT Portugal | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Dolling | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 30 | 1 in 196K | 30 | — | — |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Dolling 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 English, present participle and gerund of doll
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)
- Samuel Brooking Dollingb. 1814British Royal Navy officer, lieutenant in 1841 (1814-?)
- Robert Dollingb. 1851GBBritish priest (1851–1902)
- Alison Dollingb. 1917AUAustralian writer
- Hazel Dollingb. 1923GBBritish chatelaine
- Peter Dollingb. 1941Australian rules footballer
- Josh Dollingb. 1997GBEnglish footballer
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 154 | #107,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147 | #118,185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 126 | #137,553 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 30 | #16,563 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Dolling mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE *dolling ‘the dull one’; first attested William Dolling 1243 AssSo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dolling?
- A machine transcription gives /dˈɒlɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dolling have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Dolling in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dölling.
- How common is the name Dolling?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 30 people named Dolling, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dollingThe 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, “Dolling”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.