Dodo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/doʊdoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dodo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- GEGeorgia1 in 967as დოდო(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 26K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 26K
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 Dodo 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, 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)
A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dodo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | — | — |
| GE Georgia | #163 | 4,132as დოდო | 1 in 967 | 4.1K | Dodo | 28 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1.5K | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 341K | 24 | — | 1 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Dodo | 4 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Dodo | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | 59 | 1 in 3.6M | 1K | — | — |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Dodo 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.
David (herdman?)
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Beloved or His Beloved
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Beloved
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
lovable, large and round
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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)
- Dodo Kuranosukeb. 1450JPdaimyo
- Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausenb. 1583DEGerman soldier (1583-1636)
- Dodo Fürst zu Innhausen und Knyphausenb. 1876DEGerman politician
- Dodo Wattsb. 1911GBBritish actress (1911–1990)
- Dodo Chichinadzeb. 1924GEGeorgian actress (1924-2009)
- Dodo Marmarosab. 1925USAmerican musician (1925–2002)
- Dodo Hugb. 1950CHSwiss musician
- Dodob. 1955FRFrench comics artist
- Dodo Roscicb. 1972ATAustrian television presenter
- Dodo Dayaoscreenwriter
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 1.5K | #376 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #9,021 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 14 | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Dodo mean, and where does it come from?
- A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dodo?
- A machine transcription gives /doʊdoʊ/ (IPA) for Georgian.
- Is Dodo a male or female name?
- Dodo is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dodo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Dodo in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dodo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 59 people named Dodo in 2022, about 1 in 3.6 million residents.
- How common is Dodo compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Dodo is the 163rd most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dodoThe 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, “Dodo” — the 163rd most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.