Explore the Family Name Dobish

The meaning of Dobish

1. Americanized form of Slovak and Czech Dobiš, Polish Dobisz (see Dobis and below), and of their Germanized form Dobisch. 2. Belorussian and Ukrainian (standard transliteration Dobysh): patronymic from the personal name Dobysh, a pet form of any of various compound names on Old Slavic dobъ ‘brave, courageous’ (see Dobis).

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How common is the last name Dobish in the United States?

According to data derived from the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Dobish saw a slight decline between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it ranked 64,385 in terms of popularity across the nation but dropped to the 67,943rd position by 2010, reflecting a change of -5.53%. However, the actual count of people carrying the Dobish surname increased marginally from 289 in 2000 to 290 in 2010, an increase of 0.35%. Meanwhile, the proportion of the surname per 100,000 people declined by 9.09%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#64,385	#67,943	-5.53%
Count	289	290	0.35%
Proportion per 100k	0.11	0.1	-9.09%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Dobish

Based on the ethnic identity data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the majority of individuals with the Dobish surname identified as White in both 2000 and 2010, with a slight increase of 0.01% over the decade. The percentage of those identifying as Hispanic saw a decrease from 1.73% in 2000 to none recorded in 2010. Interestingly, there was a new emergence of individuals who identified with two or more races in 2010, which was not present in 2000. There were no individuals with the Dobish surname who identified as Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, or American Indian and Alaskan Native in either of these years.

	2000	2010	Change
White	97.23%	97.24%	0.01%
Two or More Races	0%	1.72%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Hispanic	1.73%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%