Dodds

8,386 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dodds in the 2020 census, making it the 4,107th most common in the country. That is about one person in 35,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,386
Rank: 4,107th
How common: 1 in 35,600
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

. From Middle English Dodd.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dodds described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 7.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Dodds

Johnny Dodds (1892–1940)American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist
Baby Dodds (1898–1959)American musician
E. R. Dodds (1893–1979)Irish classical scholar
Anneliese Dodds (born 1978)British politician
Richard Dodds (born 1959)field hockey player
Megan Dodds (born 1970)American actress
Jennifer Dodds (born 1991)Scottish female curler
Diane Dodds (born 1958)British politician

People named Dodds with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dodds

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.