Dock
Dock was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 5,383 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dock by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dock mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dock is “a male given name or nickname.”
As an English surname, possibly from the noun duck.
As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”).
As a German surname, spelling variant of Docke, related to the noun Tuch (“cloth, piece of fabric”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dock?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,700, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1920, the peak
Dock peaked in 1920, when 128 boys were given it, #542 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,700 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,964 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,699 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,979 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,223 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,557 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 12 | #4,784 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,565 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,297 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,230 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,079 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,682 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,161 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,308 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,227 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,938 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,830 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,005 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,806 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,300 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,269 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #1,702 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 26 | #1,566 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,282 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,517 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,342 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,379 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,247 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,263 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,137 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,114 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,236 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,208 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 43 | #1,083 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,136 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 58 | #863 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,061 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 43 | #996 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 52 | #924 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,124 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,134 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 53 | #863 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 45 | #934 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 50 | #889 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 41 | #992 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 43 | #941 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 70 | #732 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 58 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 53 | #852 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 49 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 65 | #777 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 85 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 73 | #735 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 72 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 100 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 97 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 115 | #586 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 100 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 116 | #585 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 111 | #614 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 120 | #578 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 128 | #542 | 0.12 |
| 1919 | 118 | #552 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 117 | #558 | 0.12 |
| 1917 | 103 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 123 | #510 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 88 | #614 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 96 | #501 | 0.15 |
| 1913 | 68 | #521 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 80 | #434 | 0.19 |
| 1911 | 55 | #381 | 0.24 |
| 1910 | 70 | #297 | 0.36 |
| 1909 | 45 | #350 | 0.27 |
| 1908 | 46 | #330 | 0.30 |
| 1907 | 52 | #296 | 0.35 |
| 1906 | 51 | #279 | 0.38 |
| 1905 | 35 | #346 | 0.26 |
| 1904 | 38 | #324 | 0.30 |
| 1903 | 39 | #301 | 0.33 |
| 1902 | 50 | #264 | 0.41 |
| 1901 | 40 | #273 | 0.38 |
| 1900 | 73 | #238 | 0.49 |
| 1899 | 42 | #260 | 0.40 |
| 1898 | 53 | #239 | 0.43 |
| 1897 | 68 | #207 | 0.60 |
| 1896 | 71 | #211 | 0.59 |
| 1895 | 68 | #208 | 0.58 |
| 1894 | 60 | #218 | 0.52 |
| 1893 | 55 | #229 | 0.49 |
| 1892 | 65 | #217 | 0.53 |
| 1891 | 49 | #230 | 0.48 |
| 1890 | 58 | #218 | 0.52 |
| 1889 | 57 | #220 | 0.52 |
| 1888 | 68 | #214 | 0.56 |
| 1887 | 53 | #217 | 0.52 |
| 1886 | 69 | #194 | 0.62 |
| 1885 | 59 | #206 | 0.55 |
| 1884 | 66 | #202 | 0.58 |
| 1883 | 63 | #186 | 0.60 |
| 1882 | 59 | #213 | 0.52 |
| 1881 | 43 | #235 | 0.43 |
| 1880 | 46 | #245 | 0.42 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dock a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dock has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 122 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dock: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dock, and how old are they?
An estimated 883 Americans named Dock and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 52 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 859 people named Dock (13 women and girls, 846 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Dock born?
The states with the most babies named Dock are North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 451 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Georgia | 444 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Alabama | 380 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Mississippi | 267 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| South Carolina | 226 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 181 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 107 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 78 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 49 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Dock is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dock is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dock with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,963 babies since 1880, Dock is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Dock (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 Dock
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.
More about Dock and names like it
- Compare Dock and DocBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDock peaked in 1920.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dock since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Dock.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dock alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.