The Dabo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 298 people carried this name — #66,371 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is up 62% from 184 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 390 people named Dabo.
140 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 31 départements, most often Morbihan.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
72 people named Dabo live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 49 people named Dabo live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
58 people named Dabo is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Dabo in American newspapers,
1905–1939.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,782 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Dabo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Leon Dabo 1864–1960 · painter -
Mohamadou Dabo 1959–2022 · businessperson -
Ousmane Dabo 1977– · association football player -
Mouhamadou Dabo 1986– · association football player -
Astan Dabo 1992– · basketball player -
Radoslav Dabo 1936–2023 · poet
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 38 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dabo.
- Daas 240 · U.S. census
- Dabadie 108 · U.S. census
- Dabe 253 · U.S. census
- Dabek 329 · U.S. census
- Dabel 277 · U.S. census
- Dabit 205 · U.S. census
- Dabon 130 · U.S. census
- Dabrowska 135 · U.S. census
- Dabrowski 2,877 · U.S. census
- Dach 346 · U.S. census
- Dacier 128 · U.S. census
- Dacosta 6,679 · U.S. census
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