Docie — girls' name
68 babies named Docie in U.S. Social Security records since 1887, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Docie was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Docie in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Docie
The Social Security Administration has registered 68 babies named Docie between 1887 and 1928, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Docie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1928. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Docie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 26 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Docie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Docie 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 68 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.
Docie at a glance
Last recorded 1928Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Docie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1928–1887
- Peak year (1918)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1928.
68 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 8 births in a single year.
Docie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 26 births that decade — 38% of Docie's all-time total
Docie decade highlights
- Peak decade 26 births
- Runner-up 16 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Docie's strongest decade
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
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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, 1887–1928 (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.