Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Do through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,296 as a first name in 2020; 38,056 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Do’s family of names
In French usage, Do as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Đỗ.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Do
- Sejong the Greatfourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul1397–1450
- Đỗ Thị Hải YếnVietnamese actressborn 1982
- Namkung DoSouth Korean footballerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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