Dott
org · Latin script
Meaning: probably from ON dottr ‘lazy’ or OE dott ‘head of a boil’; first attested Philip Dot c1231 LuffCh
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Dott is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.8M
- PLPoland1 in 13M
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
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
296 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dött in DE Germany and D'Ott in AU Australia.
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)probably from ON dottr ‘lazy’ or OE dott ‘head of a boil’; first attested Philip Dot c1231 LuffCh
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dott 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 | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 361 | Dott | 162 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 44 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Dött | 69 |
| AU Australia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | D'Ott | 29 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | 1 |
296 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Dott is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a small ball of light, fluffy material
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dot, speck, spot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, dowry
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)- Georg Dottb. 1467DEGerman scholar
- Johannes Dottb. 1892DEGerman politician (1892-1969)
- Robert H. Dott, Jr.b. 1929USAmerican geologist and historian of geology
- Manfred Dottb. 1940DEGerman politician
- Sergej Alexander Dottb. 1959DEGerman sculptor and painter
- Graeme Dottb. 1977GBScottish snooker player
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 361 | #53,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 308 | #68,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 296 | #66,754 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #256,014 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dott mean, and where does it come from?
- probably from ON dottr ‘lazy’ or OE dott ‘head of a boil’; first attested Philip Dot c1231 LuffCh Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Dott have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 296 people named Dott, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dott.
- Where is Dott most common?
- Dott is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dott?
- In the United States, the national register counted 296 people named Dott in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dottThe 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, “Dott”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.