Doug
Doug is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 170th, in 1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19621,843 births
- Best rank
- #170in 1962
- Since 1918
- 22,472people given the name
The story in the numbers
22,472 boys have been named Doug in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 1,843 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 1,843 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 53%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Doug | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 39 | |
| 1930s | 340 | |
| 1940s | 2,326 | |
| 1950s | 5,349 | |
| 1960s | 11,895 | |
| 1970s | 1,918 | |
| 1980s | 388 | |
| 1990s | 111 | |
| 2000s | 55 | |
| 2010s | 34 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Doug was the 170th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Doug
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timpeak 1960
- Chuckpeak 1961
- Gregpeak 1961
- Russpeak 1959
- Todpeak 1962
- Jeffpeak 1961
- Rodpeak 1960
- Kenpeak 1960
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.