Dorival
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dorival is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: de, from any of the places in Charente, Seine-Maritime, and Somme called Orival, from L aurea golden (i.e.
- BRBrazil1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 27K
- AOAngola≈1 in 77K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
22,712 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de, from any of the places in Charente, Seine-Maritime, and Somme called Orival, from L aurea golden (i.e. lovely; cf. Dore) + vallis valley (see Vale). There are also other places throughout France with the same origin but differ¬ ent modern spellings, and these may have contributed to the surname. Vars.: Dorset. Dossett.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorival 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #851 | 22,712 | 1 in 9.3K | 30K | Dorival | 108 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Dorival | 10 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | 363 | Dorival | 98 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 208K | listed | Dorival | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 42 | 1 in 81K | 42 | Dorival | 4 |
22,712 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the ht-potomitan-names 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dorival Caymmib. 1914BRBrazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter (1914–2008)
- Yustrichb. 1917BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian football manager (1917–1990)
- Budab. 1929BRnot in their usual nametrumpeter from São Paulo
- Dorival Resendeb. 1944BRBrazilian politician
- Dorival Júniorb. 1962BRfootball manager, born 1962
- Dorival Mateus da Costab. 1962BRassociation football player (1962-2015)
- Dorival Souza Barreto Júniorb. 1964BRBrazilian Roman-Catholic bishop
- Dorivab. 1972BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer and manager
- Dorival Thomazb. 1976BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Dorival das Neves Ferraz Júniorb. 1987BRBrazilian association football player
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 850 | #10,702 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 363 | #60,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 330 | #60,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 207 | #84,310 |
| 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 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Dorival come from?
- de, from any of the places in Charente, Seine-Maritime, and Somme called Orival, from L aurea golden (i.e. lovely; cf. Dore) + vallis valley (see Vale). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Dorival mean?
- Recorded meaning: de, from any of the places in Charente, Seine-Maritime, and Somme called Orival, from L aurea golden (i.e.
- Is Dorival a male or female name?
- Dorival is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dorival have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Dorival, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorival.
- Where is Dorival most common?
- Dorival is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dorival?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 22,712 people named Dorival in 2022, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorival compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Dorival is the 851st most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorivalThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dorival” — the 851st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.