Dosso
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dozo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dosso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 172K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 372K
- ARArgentina1 in 413K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 172K (inferred from the name graph)
569 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dosso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 569 | 1 in 372K | 569 | — | — |
| US United States | 114 | 1 in 2.9M | 194 | Dosso | 22 |
| AR Argentina | 110 | 1 in 413K | 110 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 82 | 1 in 610K | 82 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 49 | 1 in 172K | 49 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | — | 2 |
569 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Dosso 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 Italian, back (of the body)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mireille Dossob. 1952CIComorian-born Ivorian microbiologist and virologist
- Dosso Moussab. 1955CIIvorian politician (1955)
- Alain Dossob. 1966FRFrench politician
- Alimata Dossob. 1979CIhandball player
- Chiara Dossob. 1994ITItalian architect (born 1994)
- Zaynab Dossob. 1999ITItalian athletics competitor
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 569 | #15,167 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 194 | #99,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 114 | #145,220 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 110 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 82 | #31,874 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 82 | #31,586 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 49 | #18,963 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #54,375 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Dosso?
- A machine transcription gives /dozo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Dosso have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 569 people named Dosso, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dosso most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dosso is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 172 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dosso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 569 people named Dosso, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dosso?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dossoThe 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, “Dosso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.