The Dose surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 831 people carried this name — #28,679 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 357,100 people counted. That is up 3% from 806 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 165 people named Dose live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 52 people named Dose.
22 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 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.
In the Nordic population registers
58 people named Dose 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).
Who carried it
People named Dose,
with a public archive behind them.
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Johannes Dose 1860–1933 · writer -
Justa Dose 1894–1978 · writer -
Cai Dose 1700–1768 · architect
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Ferdinand Theodor Dose 1818–1851 · artist
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Willy Dose 1868–1940 · photographer
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Willy Dose 1868–1940 · photographer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dose.
When the index is not enough
This page says where Dose is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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