How common is the surname Dobos?

1,080 people in the United States had the surname Dobos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 285,875 Americans. It ranked 23,515th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dobos?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Dobos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Dobos?

Dobos is /ˈdoʊˌboʊʃ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Dobos getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,098 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,080 in 2010, down 1.6%.

The surname Dobos

A Hungarian surname, carried by 1,080 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈdoʊˌboʊʃ/ 2 syllables Soundex D120

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dobos is more common than 85.5% of them.

Origin

Hungarian origin

A surname from Hungarian.

One of 46 Hungarian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,080 people named Dobos in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 285,875 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,098.

#23,515

rank among US surnames

1,080

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-1.6%

change since 2000 (was #22,011)

Who is named Dobos

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Dobos identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
Two or more races 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dobos

Dobbs

Dobos has the Soundex code D120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D120.

Other Hungarian surnames

All 46 Hungarian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Dobos come from?: Dobos is Hungarian in origin.
How common is the surname Dobos?: 1,080 people in the United States had the surname Dobos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 285,875 Americans. It ranked 23,515th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dobos?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Dobos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Dobos?: Dobos is /ˈdoʊˌboʊʃ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Dobos getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,098 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,080 in 2010, down 1.6%.