Don
Don is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 91 births. Its best rank was 50th, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 910.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19464,111 births
- Best rank
- #50in 1934
- Since 1880
- 168,745people given the name
The story in the numbers
167,538 boys have been named Don in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 4,111 births — 0.25% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 91 births in 2024, against 4,111 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1940s alone account for 22%. It has spent 122 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 24 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,207 girls have also been given it, 0.72% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Don | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 454 | |
| 1890s | 620 | |
| 1900s | 817 | |
| 1910s | 5,683 | |
| 1920s | 16,941 | |
| 1930s | 35,980 | |
| 1940s | 36,253 | |
| 1950s | 29,451 | |
| 1960s | 22,123 | |
| 1970s | 8,496 | |
| 1980s | 4,992 | |
| 1990s | 2,637 | |
| 2000s | 1,530 | |
| 2010s | 1,071 | |
| 2020s | 490 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Don was the 79th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1946 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Don
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Geraldpeak 1942
- Genepeak 1937
- Buddypeak 1935
- Billpeak 1947
- Donaldpeak 1934
- Bobpeak 1959
- Geroldpeak 1939
- Jimmiepeak 1934
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.