Doug
Doug was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 22,473 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,600 Americans named Doug and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 60 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doug by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Doug mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Doug is “a diminutive of the male given name Douglas.”
Clipping of Douglas.
/dʌɡ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Doug?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,188, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,843 babies in 1962, the peak
Doug peaked in 1962, when 1,843 boys were given it, #170 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #11,188 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,135 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,956 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,038 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,925 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,074 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,851 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,442 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,045 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,402 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #8,697 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,733 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,223 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,602 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,517 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,643 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,006 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,247 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,972 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 45 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 27 | #1,994 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 50 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 40 | #1,546 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,091 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 90 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 84 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 100 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 114 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 125 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 176 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 197 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 255 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 340 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1970 | 437 | #385 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 512 | #350 | 0.29 |
| 1968 | 581 | #314 | 0.33 |
| 1967 | 625 | #292 | 0.36 |
| 1966 | 684 | #281 | 0.38 |
| 1965 | 1,028 | #227 | 0.55 |
| 1964 | 1,409 | #199 | 0.71 |
| 1963 | 1,689 | #174 | 0.83 |
| 1962 | 1,843 | #170 | 0.89 |
| 1961 | 1,817 | #172 | 0.86 |
| 1960 | 1,704 | #182 | 0.80 |
| 1959 | 1,701 | #179 | 0.80 |
| 1958 | 1,393 | #201 | 0.66 |
| 1957 | 882 | #254 | 0.41 |
| 1956 | 404 | #366 | 0.19 |
| 1955 | 222 | #493 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 178 | #544 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 132 | #623 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 112 | #653 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 141 | #583 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 183 | #493 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 254 | #425 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 324 | #379 | 0.18 |
| 1947 | 378 | #351 | 0.21 |
| 1946 | 310 | #369 | 0.19 |
| 1945 | 222 | #404 | 0.16 |
| 1944 | 202 | #429 | 0.15 |
| 1943 | 243 | #390 | 0.17 |
| 1942 | 229 | #401 | 0.17 |
| 1941 | 79 | #692 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 85 | #657 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 76 | #682 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 62 | #780 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 45 | #934 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 34 | #1,124 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,080 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,313 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,825 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,999 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,979 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,840 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,337 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Doug a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doug has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Doug: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doug, and how old are they?
16,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 22,473 Americans ever recorded as Doug. The median Doug alive today is 64 years old; half are between 60 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 50,315 people named Doug (69 women and girls, 50,246 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Doug rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 458 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,640 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 384 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 84 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Doug born?
The states with the most babies named Doug are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,729 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 1,761 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 1,219 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 1,126 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 984 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Indiana | 978 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 905 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 790 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Iowa | 722 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 655 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Doug is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Doug is most over-represented in Washington: since 1918 it was given 2.8 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 Doug with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Doug
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 Doug and names like it
- Compare Doug and TimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDoug peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doug since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Doug.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doug alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.