Dobbin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: common diminutive of Dobb (Robert); first attested Dobin de Hatton 1203 AssSt (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdɑbɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Dobbin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 997 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Dobbin is also written Доббин in Cyrillic.
- USUnited States1 in 334K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7M
- ESSpain1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dobbin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 334K (inferred from the name graph)
997 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dobbin in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Dobbin
- English:/ˈdɑbɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)common diminutive of Dobb (Robert); first attested Dobin de Hatton 1203 AssSt
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dobbin is found
(measured from records)Dobbin 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 | 997 | 1 in 334K | 997 | Dobbin | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 128 | 1 in 1.7M | 128 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 85M | — | Dobbin | 6 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
997 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dobbin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An old jaded horse.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Doibín. (Dob is an old English diminutive of Robert). Families of the name were associated with Co. Kilkenny and the city of Waterford from the fourteenth century. The name has also been continuously in Co. Antrim, the families in question being unrelated. It is now much more numerous in Ulster than in the south. Bibl. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- James C. Dobbinb. 1814USAmerican politician (1814-1857)
- Shane Dobbinb. 1980NZNew Zealand male speed skater
- Lewis Dobbinb. 2003GBEnglish association football player (born 2003)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dobbin mean, and where does it come from?
- common diminutive of Dobb (Robert); first attested Dobin de Hatton 1203 AssSt Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dobbin?
- In English /ˈdɑbɪn/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dobbin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 997 people named Dobbin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dobbin. After it come Brazil, Spain, Russia and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dobbin most common?
- Dobbin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 334 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dobbin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 997 people named Dobbin in 2010, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dobbinThe 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, “Dobbin” — ranked 24406th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.