Dŏ

surname · Latin script

Dŏ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Đỗ.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 11K
  • USUnited States1 in 11K

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)

30,301 people, 2010

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Borrowed from Vietnamese Đỗ.

Sources 3

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dŏ 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.

Where Dŏ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States30,3011 in 11K38K—61
NO Norway7681 in 7.1K768—2
SE Sweden5661 in 18K566——
FI Finland5261 in 11K526—1
PL Poland4881 in 78K267——
DK Denmark3791 in 15K379——

30,301 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dŏ is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Do, D'O, Dô, Dõ, D'Ô

  • Portuguese surname59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Guinea-Bissau

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Do, Dó, Dö, Do', Dò

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Dó, დო, Dõ, Do

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dŏ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dŏ mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Vietnamese Đỗ. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Dŏ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Dŏ, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Dŏ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dŏ is densest in Norway — about 1 in 7.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dŏ?
In the United States, the national register counted 30,301 people named Dŏ in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.

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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, “Dŏ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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