Dodd
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Old English male personal name Dodda or Dudda; probably originally a nickname, perhaps meaning 'short round person'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Dodd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.1K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 6.3K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 484 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
30,732 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Old English male personal name Dodda or Dudda; probably originally a nickname, perhaps meaning 'short round person'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dodd 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 | #951 | 30,732 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Dodd | 484 |
| GB United Kingdom | #395 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Dodd | 249 |
| AU Australia | #491 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Dodd | 176 |
| CA Canada | #929 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Dodd | 162 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Dodd | 40 |
| NZ New Zealand | #523 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Dodd | 79 |
| IE Ireland | #695 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Dodd | 63 |
30,732 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. 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)Dodd 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 English surname from Middle English derived from a Middle English given name of obscure origin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, This is the name of an ancient English (Shropshire) family settled in Co. Sligo in the late sixteenth century. It is now scattered, though mainly found in Cos. Armagh and Down. Occasionally Dodd is a corrupt synonym of Dowd in Ulster
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)- William Doddb. 1869USAmerican historian and ambassador to Germany
- C. H. Doddb. 1884GBBritish theologian (1884–1973)
- David Doddb. 1895USAmerican educator and economist
- Thomas J. Doddb. 1907USAmerican diplomat and politician (1907–1971)
- Martha Doddb. 1908USAmerican journalist, novelist and spy for the Soviet Union (1908–1990)
- Claire Doddb. 1911USAmerican actress (1908/1911–1973)
- Ken Doddb. 1927GBEnglish comedian, singer-songwriter and actor (1927–2018)
- Steve Doddb. 1928AUAustralian soldier, actor (1928-2014)
- Christopher Doddb. 1944USAmerican lawyer and politician (born 1944)
- Travis Doddb. 1980AUAustralian soccer player
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 31K | #1,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 30K | #1,065 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 29K | #1,175 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Dodd mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Old English male personal name Dodda or Dudda; probably originally a nickname, perhaps meaning 'short round person' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Dodd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Dodd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dodd.
- How common is the name Dodd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 30,732 people named Dodd in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Dodd compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dodd is the 951st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doddThe 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, “Dodd” — the 951st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.