Dois — boys' name
96 babies named Dois in U.S. Social Security records since 1920, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
51% of everyone ever named Dois was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Dois in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dois
The Social Security Administration has registered 96 babies named Dois between 1920 and 1949, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dois currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1949. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Dois is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 59 additional births since 1927.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dois performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 49 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Dois shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dois in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dois 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 96 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.
Dois at a glance
Last recorded 1949Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dois popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1949–1920
- Peak year (1923)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1949.
96 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 9 births in a single year.
Dois popularity over time — girls
59 total births recorded since 1927 (Dois as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Dois accounts for 38% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dois by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 49 births that decade — 51% of Dois's all-time total
Dois decade highlights
- Peak decade 49 births
- Runner-up 32 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Dois's strongest decade
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Dois by state
Where Dois concentrates geographically — total births since 1920
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 5.2% |
5 of 96 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 5.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 5.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1920–1949 (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.