The Dollinger surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,167 people carried this name — #22,144 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 250,000 people counted. That is up 4% from 1,117 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Dollinger surname
Habitational, from Dölling or Döllingen + -er.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Döllinger» (German), 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 249 people named Dollinger.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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
114 people named Dollinger live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.
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.
Who carried it
People named Dollinger,
with a public archive behind them.
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Konrad Dollinger 1840–1925 · architect -
Gyula Dollinger 1849–1937 · physician -
Peter Paul Dollinger 1829–1903 · pastor
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Julius Dollinger 1849– · surgeon
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Ferdinand Dollinger 1862–1936 · physician
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Léon Dollinger 1866–1921 · literary scholar
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dollinger.
When the index is not enough
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