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Dubois

Dubois is a surname from French. It is used in English and French.

Original FrenchBois

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Dubois comes from French.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From French Dubois.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Dubois through the years

Babies since 1880
29
29 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1919
7 babies
2025
0
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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02468192019401960198020002025Highest share 19190.0
Dubois in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1919–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 108 as a first name in 2020; 22,571 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.

Dubois’s family of names

In French usage, Dubois has a later derivative in DUBACH. In French usage, Dubois as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Wood. In French usage, Dubois as a surname has a related form in BOIS.

Walk Dubois’s family in the name graph

DuboisBoisDu BoisWoodsWoodZaleski

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Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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