Django — #12608 US boys' name
292 babies named Django in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 11% of names given to boys today.
43% of everyone ever named Django was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Django in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Django
The Social Security Administration has registered 292 babies named Django between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Django currently holds the #12608 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Django performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Django shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Django in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Django in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 292 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Django at a glance
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Current rank
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Django popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1970
- Peak year (2011)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 55 years of records
Currently ranks #12608 among boys.
292 total births across 55 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 28 births in a single year.
Django by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 127 births that decade — 43% of Django's all-time total
Django decade highlights
- Peak decade 127 births
- Runner-up 110 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Django's strongest decade
127 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Django by state
Where Django concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 26 | 8.9% |
26 of 292 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 8.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.