Family name origins & meanings
- Hungarian : metonymic occupational name for a drummer or for a drum maker, from dob ‘drum’.
- Hungarian : from a pet form of any of various Slavic personal names such as Dobeslav and Doběstoj, or Czech Tobiáš or Hungarian Tóbiás (see Tobias).
- Czech (Doboš) : variant of Dobeš (see Dobesh).
- Americanized spelling of Polish Dobosz.