Dook
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To make a certain clucking sound
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dook is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 640K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 482Kas 도옥
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 Dook 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 640K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 named 도옥, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 도옥 in KR South Korea.
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)
To make a certain clucking sound.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dook 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 482K | — | 도옥 | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 27 | 1 in 640K | 27 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 6 |
| IN India | — | — | 11 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)
Dook is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, singular past indicative of duiken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds (Germany), cloth (a piece of fabric)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, duck (act of ducking)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmw, weaverbird
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #117,808 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dook mean, and where does it come from?
- To make a certain clucking sound. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dook?
- A machine transcription gives /dʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dook have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 108 people named 도옥 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dook most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dook is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 640 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dook?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 27 people named Dook, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dook?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dookThe 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, “Dook”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.