Doyal
Doyal was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 1,149 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doyal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doyal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,240, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1929, the peak
Doyal peaked in 1929, when 39 boys were given it, #1,114 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #8,240 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,261 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,823 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,088 | 3.9 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,306 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,722 | 4.9 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,955 | 3.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,817 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,662 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,365 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 12 | #2,450 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,210 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,119 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,168 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,428 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,570 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,047 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,906 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,193 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,333 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,983 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,852 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,764 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,161 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,758 | 10.1 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,630 | 11.8 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,725 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,372 | 15.9 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,567 | 12.9 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,800 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,542 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,124 | 25.9 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,598 | 14.5 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,172 | 26.1 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,293 | 23.3 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,503 | 18.1 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,226 | 26.1 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,419 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,231 | 28.0 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,204 | 29.8 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,333 | 25.2 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,312 | 26.2 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,481 | 22.0 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,197 | 31.7 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,158 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,114 | 36.3 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,578 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,706 | 18.6 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,384 | 25.2 |
| 1925 | 19 | #1,821 | 17.0 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,792 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,364 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,316 | 28.5 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,665 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,430 | 25.4 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,176 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,926 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,918 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,468 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,898 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,495 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,573 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,643 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Doyal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doyal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Doyal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doyal, and how old are they?
An estimated 331 Americans named Doyal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 65 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 388 people named Doyal (10 women and girls, 378 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 442 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,719 babies since 1880, Doyal is the most given (67% of them).
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 Doyal
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 Doyal and names like it
- Compare Doyal and DoilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDoyal peaked in 1929.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doyal since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Doyal.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doyal alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.