Douglass
Douglass was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 5,795 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,510 Americans named Douglass and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 46 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Douglass by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Douglass mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Douglass is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Douglass?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,167, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
137 babies in 1970, the peak
Douglass peaked in 1970, when 137 boys were given it, #709 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,167 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,129 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,668 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,061 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,929 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,959 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,914 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,926 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,329 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,240 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #10,138 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,207 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,223 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,540 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,802 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,109 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,966 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,198 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,452 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,632 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,397 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,465 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,923 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,315 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,944 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,136 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,727 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,184 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,152 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 57 | #1,498 | 27.8 |
| 1989 | 38 | #1,920 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 52 | #1,464 | 27.2 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,618 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 40 | #1,623 | 21.7 |
| 1985 | 51 | #1,361 | 27.6 |
| 1984 | 43 | #1,462 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,253 | 30.1 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,494 | 23.1 |
| 1981 | 51 | #1,297 | 28.5 |
| 1980 | 74 | #1,050 | 41.5 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,228 | 32.5 |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,060 | 40.8 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,084 | 38.9 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,304 | 29.3 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,087 | 38.4 |
| 1974 | 73 | #956 | 46.4 |
| 1973 | 77 | #918 | 49.4 |
| 1972 | 97 | #813 | 59.8 |
| 1971 | 121 | #742 | 68.4 |
| 1970 | 137 | #709 | 73.7 |
| 1969 | 132 | #688 | 73.8 |
| 1968 | 106 | #726 | 61.0 |
| 1967 | 67 | #878 | 38.4 |
| 1966 | 72 | #856 | 40.4 |
| 1965 | 64 | #927 | 34.4 |
| 1964 | 79 | #857 | 39.6 |
| 1963 | 84 | #827 | 41.4 |
| 1962 | 103 | #754 | 49.8 |
| 1961 | 89 | #807 | 41.9 |
| 1960 | 94 | #789 | 44.1 |
| 1959 | 101 | #755 | 47.3 |
| 1958 | 97 | #749 | 45.7 |
| 1957 | 118 | #700 | 54.7 |
| 1956 | 114 | #692 | 53.9 |
| 1955 | 99 | #733 | 48.1 |
| 1954 | 116 | #668 | 56.9 |
| 1953 | 105 | #696 | 53.2 |
| 1952 | 122 | #633 | 62.8 |
| 1951 | 117 | #651 | 62.1 |
| 1950 | 109 | #669 | 60.9 |
| 1949 | 132 | #591 | 74.4 |
| 1948 | 113 | #635 | 64.4 |
| 1947 | 101 | #690 | 55.2 |
| 1946 | 84 | #712 | 51.7 |
| 1945 | 64 | #767 | 47.6 |
| 1944 | 71 | #738 | 52.1 |
| 1943 | 81 | #715 | 56.8 |
| 1942 | 116 | #575 | 84.0 |
| 1941 | 53 | #872 | 43.1 |
| 1940 | 55 | #850 | 47.4 |
| 1939 | 56 | #814 | 50.6 |
| 1938 | 75 | #704 | 67.6 |
| 1937 | 46 | #924 | 43.1 |
| 1936 | 41 | #978 | 39.5 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,063 | 35.5 |
| 1934 | 47 | #919 | 45.5 |
| 1933 | 42 | #984 | 42.4 |
| 1932 | 52 | #894 | 49.8 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,080 | 37.5 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,010 | 41.9 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,222 | 30.7 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,277 | 28.9 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,253 | 30.2 |
| 1926 | 50 | #969 | 45.0 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,148 | 34.1 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,075 | 38.8 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,103 | 38.3 |
| 1922 | 44 | #1,061 | 40.4 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,147 | 35.4 |
| 1920 | 46 | #1,023 | 43.2 |
| 1919 | 49 | #962 | 50.0 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,158 | 35.5 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,183 | 35.7 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,062 | 41.6 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,316 | 30.6 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,354 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,083 | 42.9 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,552 | 25.6 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,308 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,657 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,317 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,437 | 32.4 |
| 1907 | 9 | #941 | 61.3 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,202 | 39.9 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,007 | 51.1 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,107 | 41.0 |
| 1888 | 7 | #840 | 57.9 |
| 1883 | 6 | #821 | 57.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Douglass a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Douglass has been given almost only to boys: 26 girls in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Douglass: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Douglass, and how old are they?
3,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 5,795 Americans ever recorded as Douglass. The median Douglass alive today is 58 years old; half are between 46 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 3,876 people named Douglass (51 women and girls, 3,825 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,902 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 230 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 599 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 168 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 55 |
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 Douglass born?
The states with the most babies named Douglass are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 390 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 381 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 243 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 146 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 144 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 136 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 111 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 78 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 73 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Douglass is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Douglass is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1910 it was given 1.2 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 Douglass 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 568,181 babies since 1880, Douglass is the second most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 308 babies recorded by SSA was a Douglass (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 Douglass
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 Douglass and names like it
- Compare Douglass and DouglasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDouglass peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Douglass since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Douglass: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Douglass.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Douglass alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.