Dornan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cendant of Doimin’, a byname representing a dim
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdɔɹnɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dornan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 351K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
949 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cendant of Doimin’, a byname representing a dim. of dom fist. Vars.: Durnin (Gael. O Doirnln).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dornan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 949 | 1 in 351K | 1.1K | Dornan | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | Dornan | 4 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Dornan | 3 |
949 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Samuel Shaw Dornanb. 1871GBBritish theologian and anthropologist (1871–1941)
- Henry Dornanb. 1916GBScottish footballer (1916-1990)
- Bob Dornanb. 1933USAmerican politician
- Jim Dornanb. 1948GBgynaecologist
- James Dornanb. 1953GBBritish politician (born 1953)
- Andy Dornanb. 1961GBScottish footballer (born 1961)
- Alan Dornanb. 1962GBNorthern Irish footballer (born 1962)
- Jamie Dornanb. 1982GBNorthern Irish actor
- David Dornanb. 2000USAmerican biochemist and geneticist
- David DornanAUAustralian politician
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 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 949 | #25,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 910 | #25,503 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,287 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #61,881 |
| 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 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dornan come from?
- cendant of Doimin’, a byname representing a dim. of dom fist. Vars.: Durnin (Gael. O Doirnln). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dornan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɔɹnɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Dornan mean?
- Recorded meaning: cendant of Doimin’, a byname representing a dim.
- In which country does Dornan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 949 people named Dornan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dornan.
- Where is Dornan most common?
- Dornan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 351 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dornan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 949 people named Dornan in 2010, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dornanThe 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, “Dornan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.