The Dobbels surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 135 people carried this name — #118,954 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,000,000 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 401 people named Dobbels 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 West Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 67 people named Dobbels.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dobbels.
- Dixon 152,015 · U.S. census
- Djordjevic 438 · U.S. census
- Djuric 350 · U.S. census
- Do 21,230 · U.S. census
- Doan 15,902 · U.S. census
- Dobbelaere 174 · U.S. census
- Dobe 171 · U.S. census
- Dobel 148 · U.S. census
- Dobert 335 · U.S. census
- Dobin 290 · U.S. census
- Dobler 1,146 · U.S. census
- Dobosz 491 · U.S. census
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