Dodds
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of dodd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɑdz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dodds is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular simple present indicative of dodd
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dodds is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, son of Dodd
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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)
- Alfred Amédée Doddsb. 1842FRFrench general (1842–1922)
- Johnny Doddsb. 1892USAmerican jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist (1892–1940)
- Eric Robertson Doddsb. 1893GBIrish classical scholar (1893–1979)
- Baby Doddsb. 1898USAmerican musician (1898–1959)
- Nigel Doddsb. 1958GBBritish politician (born 1958)
- K. K. Doddsb. 1965USAmerican actress
- Megan Doddsb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Anneliese Doddsb. 1978GBBritish politician
- Andrew Doddsb. 1991AUAustralian figure skater
- Jennifer Doddsb. 1991GBScottish female curler
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.8K | #4,031 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,817 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.4K | #4,107 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 321 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 71 | #35,169 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 71 | #34,849 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 61 | #167 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #33,689 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,329 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20 | #36,564 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #2,015 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dodds mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of dodd Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dodds?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑdz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dodds have the most bearers?
- Dodds is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dodds”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.