Doak
Doak was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 189 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doak by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doak?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,991, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1957, the peak
Doak peaked in 1957, when 17 boys were given it, #1,970 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #9,991 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,627 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,624 | 4.1 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,307 | 2.9 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,294 | 3.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,094 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,043 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,202 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,738 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,436 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 12 | #2,456 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,702 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,543 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,970 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,840 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,819 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,136 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,311 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,864 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,843 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,411 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,050 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,398 | 3.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,970 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Doak a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doak has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Doak: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doak, and how old are they?
An estimated 134 Americans named Doak and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 61 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 238 people named Doak (3 women and girls, 235 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,963 babies since 1880, Doak is the third most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Doak (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Doak
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe | 4,476 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Doak and names like it
- Compare Doak and DockBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDoak peaked in 1957.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doak since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Doak.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doak alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.