# Doring (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/doring/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | patronymic, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 606 |
| US rank (2010) | 36,838 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 509,481 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.7% (623 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Two main origins: * A patronymic form of the English surname Dear. * Borrowed from German Döring.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Doring in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Doring in Germany.

## People named Doring

- Julius Döring, Baltic German artist (1818-1898)

## Similar surnames

Deering, Dearing, Doering, Deringer, Drinkwater, Drinkard, Derringer, Darrington, Deramus, Doremus, Dorrance, Dirienzo.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.