A book written about the Exchequer in c. 1176 (the Dialogus de Sacarrio) states that the book was called 'Domesday' as a metaphor for the day of judgement, because its decisions, like those of the last judgement, were unalterable. ... It was called Domesday by 1180.

Is it Domesday or Doomsday?

The name Domesday Book - Doomsday in earlier spellings - was first recorded almost a century after 1086. An addition to the Domesday manuscript probably made between 1114 and 1119 calls it the Book of Winchester. Between that date and 1179, it acquired the name by which it has since been known.

Who called for creation of Domesday Book?

Domesday: Britain's finest treasure

It contains the results of a huge survey of land and landholding commissioned by William I in 1085. Domesday is by the far the most complete record of pre-industrial society to survive anywhere in the world and provides a unique window on the medieval world.