Doan
Doan was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 54 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,829, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1982, the peak
Doan peaked in 1982, when 12 babies were given it (6 boys, #5,839 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #11,829 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,367 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,523 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,004 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,533 | 6 | #5,839 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 9 | #4,242 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,709 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,678 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Doan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 54 Americans recorded as Doan, 31% are girls and 69% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Doan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doan, and how old are they?
An estimated 51 Americans named Doan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,448 people named Doan (687 women and girls, 761 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 52 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27.8 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 175,606 babies since 1880, Doan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 89 babies recorded by SSA was a Doan (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.
More about Doan and names like it
- Compare Doan and DonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDoan peaked in 1982.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Doan.
- Names starting with DMost given first.