Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Doss isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Doss through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 445
- 445 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,014 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +50%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,014 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 235 as a first name in 2020; 21,057 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.
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