The Do surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 30,301 people carried this name — #1,159 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 9,740 people counted. That is up 43% from 21,230 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Do surname
A surname from Vietnamese.
Borrowed from Vietnamese Đỗ.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Do» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 755 people named Do.
368 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 35 départements, most often Tarn.
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
266 people named Do live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 Poland’s population register
148 people named Do have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 766 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 6 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Masovian.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 63 people named Do 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
1,052 people named Do are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Do in American newspapers,
1849–1862.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 20,745,040 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Do,
with a public archive behind them.
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Dominique Do 1825–1891 -
Do Sang-bong 1902–1977 · painter -
Do Kum-bong 1930–2009 · actor -
Denis Do 1950– · film director -
Do Jong-hwan 1955– · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 80 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Do.
- Divers 1,331 · U.S. census
- Divine 2,926 · U.S. census
- Dixit 1,273 · U.S. census
- Dixon 159,480 · U.S. census
- Djordjevic 553 · U.S. census
- Djuric 480 · U.S. census
- Doan 19,760 · U.S. census
- Dobbelaere 185 · U.S. census
- Dobbels 181 · U.S. census
- Dobe 165 · U.S. census
- Dobel 138 · U.S. census
- Dobert 339 · U.S. census
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