Dod
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from a short Germanic name stem with initial d-/t-/th-; later forms also influenced by 'Tod'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dod is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 5.4Mas Daddi(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 67K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 101K
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 Dod itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
3,182 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Daddi in IN India, US United States, IT Italy.
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)
from a short Germanic name stem with initial d-/t-/th-; later forms also influenced by 'Tod'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dod 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 | 3,182 | 1 in 67K | 3.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 879as Dady | 1 in 378K | 926 | Daddi | 89 |
| IT Italy | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 1 | Daddi | 19 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 1.5K | — | — |
| IN India | 244as Daddi | 1 in 5.4M | 244 | Daddi | 53 |
| HR Croatia | 91as Ded | 1 in 46K | 96 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 32as Dido | 1 in 334K | 32 | — | — |
3,182 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); MVČR — living population register 2017; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Dod is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the personal name Dodd(a), Dudd(a); first attested Ælfweard Dudd c1030 OEByn (Hampshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Russian, "great."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In gdd, cork, stopper made out of leaves rolled together
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, Initialism of date of death.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, sullenness, anger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Thomas Crewe Dodb. 1754Peerage person ID=130912
- Stephen Dodb. 1770USud (1770-1855)
- Charles Dodb. 1793Irish journalist and writer (1793–1855)
- John Whitehall Dodb. 1797politician, (1797-1863)
- William Dodb. 1867GBBritish archer (1867–1954)
- Lottie Dodb. 1871GBEnglish tennis player (1871-1960)
- Donald Dungan Dodb. 1912USAmerican missionary and botanist (1912-2008)
- Annabelle S. Dodb. 1913USAmerican missionary and ornithologist
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 238K | #1 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.2K | #3,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 242 | #74,398 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 41 | #50,691 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Dod mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short Germanic name stem with initial d-/t-/th-; later forms also influenced by 'Tod' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Dod have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Dod, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dod most common?
- Dod is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 67 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dod?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,182 people named Dod, about 1 in 67 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/dodThe 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, “Dod”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.