Doss
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To avoid work, shirk, etc (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Doss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 21,366 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 14Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 16K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 19Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 414 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
21,366 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)To avoid work, shirk, etc.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Doss is found
(measured from records)Doss 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 | — | 21,366 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Doss | 414 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Doss | 74 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Doss | 56 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Doss | 67 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Doss | 19 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Doss | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Doss | 11 |
| DZ Algeria | #504 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Doss | 5 |
21,366 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)Doss 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 French, an embarrassing story
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, cookie; biscuit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, tape
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Latvian, Nocietināta ugunspozīcija artilērijas vai strēlnieku grupu šaujamieročiem; dots
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Nannie Dossb. 1905USAmerican serial killer (1905–1965)
- Desmond Dossb. 1919USAmerican solder, pacifist, and combat medic; recipient of the Purple Heart medal, recipient of the Medal of Honor (1919–2007) Un gran hombre en la vida militar.
- Kurt Dossb. 1996USAmerican 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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Doss mean, and where does it come from?
- To avoid work, shirk, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Doss?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Doss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doss. After it come United Kingdom, Egypt, Canada and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Doss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,366 people named Doss in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Doss compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Doss is the 504th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Doss?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dossThe 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, “Doss” — ranked 1598th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.