Dodson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname transferred from the given name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɑdsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dodson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K
- CACanada≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 465 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
37,566 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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 surname transferred from the given name.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dodson 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 | #795 | 37,566 | 1 in 8.9K | 38K | Dodson | 465 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Dodson | 183 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Dodson | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Dodson | 89 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Dodson | 11 |
| SG Singapore | #828 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Dodson | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | #994 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Dodson | 58 |
| GY Guyana | — | 230 | 1 in 3.3K | 230 | — | 6 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Dodson | 6 |
37,566 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Dodson 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
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Betty Dodsonb. 1929USAmerican sex educator (1929–2020)
- Peter Dodsonb. 1946USAmerican paleontologist
- Mark Dodsonb. 1953USAmerican record producer
- Aidan Mark Dodsonb. 1962GBEnglish Egyptologist and historian (born 1962)
- Neal Dodsonb. 1978USAmerican film producer
- Travis Dodsonb. 1985USAmerican ice sledge hockey player
- Francesca Root-Dodsonb. 1986USAmerican actress
- Kaylee Dodsonb. 1999USAmerican actress
- Terry Dodsonb. 2000USAmerican comic artist
- Major Dodsonb. 2003USAmerican actor
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 38K | #927 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 37K | #842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 36K | #967 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 230 | #396 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Dodson mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname transferred from the given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dodson?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑdsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dodson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Dodson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dodson.
- Where is Dodson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dodson is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dodson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,566 people named Dodson in 2010, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Dodson compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dodson is the 795th 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/dodsonThe 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, “Dodson” — the 795th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.