Doc
Doc was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,974 among boys’ names; 1,391 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doc by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doc?
#3,974 among boys’ names, 2025
Doc rose from #7,633 in 2015 to #3,974 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 15.8 per million.
37 babies in 2021, the peak
Doc peaked in 2021, when 37 boys were given it, #3,198 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,974 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,823 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,921 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,555 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,198 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,574 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,032 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,783 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,250 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,243 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,633 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,384 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,152 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,084 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,634 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,732 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,334 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,496 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,355 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,012 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,489 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,649 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,041 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,132 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,541 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,546 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,466 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,296 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,536 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,188 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,745 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,390 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,763 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,714 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,456 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,786 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,214 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,898 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,793 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,358 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,437 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,854 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,925 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,428 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,626 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 13 | #939 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,138 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 12 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,254 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 10 | #884 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,036 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 9 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 10 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,039 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,091 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 18 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 9 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 8 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 9 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 7 | #917 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 9 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 9 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 7 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 16 | #499 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 7 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 9 | #682 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 13 | #533 | 0.12 |
| 1888 | 12 | #585 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 10 | #597 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 12 | #549 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 12 | #556 | 0.11 |
| 1884 | 10 | #624 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 18 | #415 | 0.17 |
| 1882 | 12 | #548 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 13 | #489 | 0.13 |
| 1880 | 9 | #646 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Doc a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doc has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 121 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Doc: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doc, and how old are they?
An estimated 618 Americans named Doc and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 980 people named Doc (64 women and girls, 916 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 495 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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, Doc is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 27 babies (100%), the most given that year.
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 Doc
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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.
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