Douglas
Douglas is ranked 853rd among boys in 2024 (283 births). Its best rank was 23rd, in 1942.
- Rank in 2024
- #853down 109 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2830.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 195716,731 births
- Best rank
- #23in 1942
- Since 1880
- 561,781people given the name
The story in the numbers
559,708 boys have been named Douglas in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 16,731 births — 0.78% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 283 births in 2024, against 16,731 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 26%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 61 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,073 girls have also been given it, 0.37% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Douglas | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 334 | |
| 1890s | 585 | |
| 1900s | 950 | |
| 1910s | 6,908 | |
| 1920s | 17,301 | |
| 1930s | 26,032 | |
| 1940s | 80,757 | |
| 1950s | 148,204 | |
| 1960s | 134,993 | |
| 1970s | 65,164 | |
| 1980s | 41,746 | |
| 1990s | 21,971 | |
| 2000s | 8,661 | |
| 2010s | 4,485 | |
| 2020s | 1,617 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Douglas was the 30th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Douglas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darrellpeak 1958
- Kentpeak 1962
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Montypeak 1961
- Randelpeak 1957
- Nickeypeak 1959
- Davidpeak 1955
- Randellpeak 1960
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.