Doe
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Doe is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 29th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from OE dā 'doe'; first attested Robert le Do(e) 1188–90 P (Sf).
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 1.4K◐
- CMCameroon1 in 1.9K
- GHGhana1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈37K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 372 ●
- 1 in 7.1K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
2.0M records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Delphine in FR France, BE Belgium, KE Kenya and 4 more, Dei in IN India, Do in BR Brazil and เดอ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
from OE dā 'doe'; first attested Robert le Do(e) 1188–90 P (Sf). Also perhaps from Eu, Seine-Inférieure; first attested William Do 1220 Cur (Ess)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 30,301 | 263K rec. | 1 in 11K | 263K | Doe | 372 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 18,327 | 23K rec. | — | 3 | Doe | 140 |
| NG Nigeria | #536 | 9,761 | 9.9K rec. | — | — | Doe | 25 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 6,789 | 6.9K rec. | — | — | Doe | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 6,666 | 17K rec. | — | 1 | Doe | 114 |
| GH Ghana | #118 | 6,454 | 6.3K rec. | — | — | Doe | 63 |
| PH Philippines | — | 5,967 | 6.4K rec. | — | 18K | Doe | 31 |
| MA Morocco | #29 | 5,796 | 6.1K rec. | — | — | Doe | 17 |
| PK Pakistan | #420 | 5,567 | 5.7K rec. | — | — | Doe | 11 |
| EG Egypt | #798 | 4,033 | 4K rec. | — | — | Doe | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #192 | 2,966 | 3K rec. | — | — | Doe | 9 |
| TH Thailand | — | 2,776 | 2K rec. | — | #884,456 | เดอ | 77 |
Roughly 30K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English186K52%
- Portuguese30K8%
- Spanish14K4%
- French12K3%
- Arabic11K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 186,100 | 52% |
| Portuguese | 29,561 | 8% |
| Spanish | 13,966 | 4% |
| French | 12,445 | 3% |
| Arabic | 11,265 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Doe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, English surname meaning ‘doe/deer’, like French Cerf.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In English, ME do doe (OE da; for the change in the vowel cf. Roper). 2. habitation name, with fused preposition de, from Em in Seine-Maritime, whose name either represents a dra¬ matic reduction of Latin Augusta ‘(city of) Augustus’ (cf. Dalton 2), or else derives from the Gmc element auwa water-meadow, island.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of doar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 1 |
| 1901 | 9 |
| 1911 | 13 |
| 1921 | 11 |
| 1931 | 17 |
| 1941 | 10 |
| 1951 | 15 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1971 | 14 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1991 | 8 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nicholas B. Doeb. 1786USU.S. Representative from New York
- Mary L. Doeb. 1836USAmerican suffragist, temperance reformer and business woman
- Edward M. Doeb. 1850USAmerican lawyer and judge (1850-1919)
- Jens A. Doeb. 1891USUnited States Army general in World War II
- Thomas Doeb. 1912USbobsledder (1912–1969)
- Samuel Doeb. 1951LR21st President of Liberia
- Francis Doeb. 1985LRLiberian footballer
- Lawrence Doeb. 1986LRLiberian association football player
- Scott Doeb. 1988GBEnglish association football player (born 1988)
- Lindsey DoeUSAmerican sexologist and YouTuber
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●
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 52 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Doe?
- We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Doe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Doe have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 30 thousand people bear Doe in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled doe.
- How common is Doe compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Doe is the 29th most common surname of 210,764 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Doe mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OE dā 'doe'; first attested Robert le Do(e) 1188–90 P (Sf).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Doe” — the 29th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.