Dou
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/dou/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Dou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 姓 , CS) (1127) 《中 日 姓氏 汇编 》 (401).
- CNChina≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.4Kfew records
- TNTunisia≈1 in 7Kfew 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)姓 , CS) (1127) 《中 日 姓氏 汇编 》 (401).
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dou is found
(measured from records)Dou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Dou | 86 |
| DZ Algeria | #831 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Dou | 10 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Dou | 7 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 512 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 21 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 500 | 1 in 665K | 906 | Dou | 150 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Dou | 24 |
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 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Empress Doub. 100CN1st century empress of the Chinese Han dynasty
- Gerrit Doub. 1613NLDutch painter (1613-1675)
- Shawn Doub. 1988CNChinese Canadian 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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dou mean, and where does it come from?
- 姓 , CS) (1127) 《中 日 姓氏 汇编 》 (401). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Dou?
- In Spanish /dou/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dou?
- Mondonomo estimates about 421 thousand people named Dou in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dou. After it come Algeria, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 500 people named Dou in 2010, about 1 in 665 thousand residents.
- How common is Dou compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Dou is the 831st most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/douThe 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, “Dou” — the 831st most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.