Dus
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: first/second-person singular past historic of devoir
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 26K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 72K
- FRFrance≈1 in 304K
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 Dus 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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
25,774 named Dos
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Does in NL Netherlands and Дос in KZ Kazakhstan.
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 Skr. tavas 'strength'; cf. thusundi 'thousand'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dus is read(measured from records)
Dus is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dus in English.
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dus in Spanish.
- French11%
first/second-person singular past historic of devoir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dus in Ukrainian.
- Czech6.9%
second-person singular imperative of dusit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dus in Polish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 25,774as Dos | 1 in 1.8K | 26K | Dus | 28 |
| PL Poland | 1,497 | 1 in 26K | 766 | Dus | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 658as Dos | 1 in 322K | 1.8K | Dus | 33 |
| NL Netherlands | 629as Does | 1 in 27K | 629 | Does | 5 |
| FR France | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 304K | 19 | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 157as Дос | 1 in 122K | 222 | Дос | 24 |
| CZ Czechia | 149 | 1 in 72K | 149 | Dus | 21 |
25,774 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling dos. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dus 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 German, probably from Skr. tavas 'strength'; cf. thusundi 'thousand'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Italian, forma reduzida de Duso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In qfa-yen-pro, cousin (f.)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In cau-drg-pro, year
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Ramón Alfredo Dusb. 1956ARArgentinian archbishop
- Michael Dusb. 1962CZCzech disident and photographer (1962–2022)
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 149 | #11,360 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 149 | #6,418 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 96 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #71,245 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #75,959 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- Where does the name Dus come from?
- probably from Skr. tavas 'strength'; cf. thusundi 'thousand' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Dus mean?
- In French, first/second-person singular past historic of devoir
- In which country does Dus have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Dos, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dus is densest in Poland — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dus?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,497 people named Dus in 2026, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dusThe 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, “Dus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.