Dorcely
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dorcely is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Dorcély. This surname is predominantly found in Haiti.
- USUnited States1 in 563K(measured from records)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 5.7K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 56K
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.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from French Dorcély. This surname is predominantly found in Haiti.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorcely 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | #365 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | listed | Dorcely | 6 |
| US United States | — | 591 | 1 in 563K | 751 | Dorcely | 127 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Dorcely | 8 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Dorcely | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Dorcely | 1 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 2 | — | 1 |
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; the ht-potomitan-names register; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roland Dorcelyb. 1930HTHaitian artist (1930-2017)
- Célima Dorcély Alexandreb. 1936HTFirst Lady of Haiti (1936-2020)
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 751 | #32,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 591 | #37,646 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 383 | #51,119 |
| HT Haiti | Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Dorcely mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Dorcély. This surname is predominantly found in Haiti. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Dorcely have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Dorcely in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorcely.
- How common is the name Dorcely?
- In the United States, the national register counted 591 people named Dorcely in 2010, about 1 in 563 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorcely compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Dorcely is the 365th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorcelyThe 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, “Dorcely” — the 365th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.