Dóczi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Dóczi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- HUHungary≈1 in 9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Doczi in US United States, RO Romania, GB United Kingdom.
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)Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: A helységnév alapjának tekinthető görög … [Doszitheosz] személynév jelentése ’adomány + Isten’, vagyis (az elnevezett gyermek) ’Isten adománya’. Ez a keresztény világ több nyelvében is keresztnévvé vált, s néhány egy szótagos rövidülésére (Dosz-) a magyarban is van példa. A szó végi -sz c-vé válása (affrikálódása) szabályos (pl. orsza > orca > arc, kosztka > kocka), s az így létrejött Doc személynév településnévvé válhatott. Más vélemény szerint az ószláv *dolc ’völgyecske’ átvétele a magyar helységnév. Az -ó- megnyúlása az -l- kiesése miatt következett be. Van olyan nézet is, amely a Domokos keresztnév egy szótagú (Do-) rövidülését és -c kicsinyítő képzőt keres a névalakban. (Ez azonban nem tartható valószínűnek, mivel a -c képző ily korai időszakban nem fordult elő.) A családnév mindenképp a Csongrád vagy Temes vármegyei Dóc településnévnek ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzős alakja, s jelentése ’Dóc nevű településre/településről való’. Elterjedtsége: A magyar nyelvterület keleti felében, különösen Erdélyben gyakori.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dóczi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #781 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Dóczi | 57 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Doczi | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | listed | Doczi | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | — | Doczi | 10 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Zsuzsánna Dóczib. 1650HUHungarian poet
- Dóczi Imreb. 1849HUHungarian teacher
- Helene Doczib. 1877ATHolocaust victim (born 1877)
- Dóczi Imreb. 1882HUHungarian physician
- György Dóczib. 1909HUHungarian architect
- Tamás Dóczib. 1949HUHungarian physician
- István Dóczib. 1965HUHungarian water polo player
- Krisztián Dóczib. 1989HUHungarian footballer
- Róbert DócziHUresearcher
- Rita DócziHUresearcher
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Dóczi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
- In which country does Dóczi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Dóczi in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dóczi.
- How common is the name Dóczi?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 7 people named Dóczi in 2008, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Dóczi compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Dóczi is the 781st most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%B3cziThe 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, “Dóczi” — the 781st most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.