Doll
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Doll is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From a medieval nickname for a foolish person, from Middle English dolle ‘dull, foolish’.
- DEGermany1 in 7.6K◐
- CACanada1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 34K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- Sources
- 341 ●
- 1 in 12K ◐
across 10 countries
121K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Doell in CD Congo - Kinshasa, NZ New Zealand, Döll in ES Spain and Dole in KR South Korea.
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 a medieval nickname for a foolish person, from Middle English dolle ‘dull, foolish’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #608 | 14,651 | 13K rec. | — | listed | Doll | 142 |
| US United States | — | 9,749 | 89K rec. | 1 in 34K | 9.7K | Doll | 341 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,552 | 4.5K rec. | — | listed | Doll | 71 |
| IN India | — | 4,520△ | 581 rec. | 1 in 293K | 4.5K | Doll | 47 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,210 | 3.1K rec. | — | 1 | Doll | 78 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,383△ | 246 rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Doll | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,267 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Doll | 64 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,026 | 932 rec. | — | — | Doll | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | 590 | 637 rec. | — | — | Doll | 18 |
| IL Israel | — | 524 | 551 rec. | — | — | Doll | 10 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 416 | 91 rec. | — | — | Doll | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | 374 | 235 rec. | — | — | Doll | 31 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English90K69%
- German16K12%
- French4.8K4%
- Spanish4.4K3%
- 1.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 89,570 | 69% |
| German | 15,873 | 12% |
| French | 4,832 | 4% |
| Spanish | 4,441 | 3% |
| 1,849 | 1% |
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●
Doll 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, from OE dol 'foolish'; first attested Lewingus Dol 1066 Winton
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, firm, hard, forceful, strong (of actions, also of emotions)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronym zu Berthold mit Assimilation zu ll; ld/ll-Varianz; 3245 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Atlasplate zu Dentale: Plosive; Schreibvarianten Doll/Dol. 3245 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1893 | 5 |
| 1895 | 6 |
| 1897 | 5 |
| 1898 | 5 |
| 1901 | 7 |
| 1902 | 7 |
| 1905 | 12 |
| 1906 | 8 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 7 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1910 | 8 |
| 1911 | 11 |
| 1912 | 10 |
| 1913 | 8 |
| 1914 | 10 |
| 1915 | 8 |
| 1916 | 14 |
| 1917 | 12 |
| 1918 | 6 |
| 1919 | 8 |
| 1920 | 10 |
| 1921 | 10 |
| 1922 | 8 |
| 1923 | 9 |
| 1925 | 9 |
| 1927 | 9 |
| 1928 | 9 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 10 |
| 1936 | 9 |
| 1938 | 8 |
| 1939 | 9 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 7 |
| 1944 | 7 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 6 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 10 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1968 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1893–1968. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Richard Dollb. 1912GBBritish physician and epidemiologist (1912–2005)
- Bob Dollb. 1919USAmerican basketball player (1919–1959)
- Caren Marsh Dollb. 1919USactress, dancer, last surviving actress from the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz"
- Dora Dollb. 1922FRFrench actress (1922–2015)
- Birgit Dollb. 1958ATAustrian actress (1958–2015)
- Thomas Dollb. 1966DEGerman association football manager (born 1966)
- Barbara Dollb. 1972FRFrench pornographic actress (1972–2023)
- Diana Dollb. 1976SKSlovak pornographic actress
- Tiffany Dollb. 1986FRFrench pornographic actress
- Benedikt Dollb. 1990DEGerman biathlete
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 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.7K | #3,646 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.7K | #3,587 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.6K | #3,429 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 233 | #32,417 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 213 | #9,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 171 | #38,893 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 118 | #9,701 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 106 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 92 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 87 | #17,327 |
Reference works 4
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 106 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Doll?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Doll (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Doll have the most bearers?
- Doll is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled doll.
- How common is Doll compared with other names?
- In Germany, Doll is the 608th most common surname of 734,811 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Doll mean?
- Recorded meaning: From a medieval nickname for a foolish person, from Middle English dolle ‘dull, foolish’.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Doll” — the 608th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.