Dover

Dover is the 3,775th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,164 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,164
Rank: 3,775th
How common: 1 in 32,600
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

From Old English Dofras, from Latin Dubris, from cel-bry Dubras (“the waters”), from Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubrós (“dark”), from *dʰewb- (“deep”). Compare Tauber.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.3%
Black, not Hispanic 11.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Dover

Kenneth Dover (1920–2010)British hellenist and classical philologist
Robert Dover (born 1956)American equestrian

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

Surnames like Dover

Dove

Try it on yourself

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.