Doyce
Doyce was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 1,118 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doyce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doyce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,138, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1936, the peak
Doyce peaked in 1936, when 48 babies were given it (36 boys, #1,078 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #9,138 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,459 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,546 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 8 | #3,181 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 8 | #3,058 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,638 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 12 | #2,450 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,215 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 12 | #2,445 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 17 | #1,994 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | under 5 | 9 | #2,882 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 17 | #1,971 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,693 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 7 | #3,289 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 20 | #1,744 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 19 | #1,779 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 13 | #2,213 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 22 | #1,630 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 17 | #1,853 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 23 | #1,551 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 17 | #1,838 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 29 | #1,354 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 25 | #1,493 | |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,475 | 20 | #1,610 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,761 | 17 | #1,644 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,789 | 22 | #1,451 |
| 1943 | under 5 | 26 | #1,374 | |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,241 | 21 | #1,550 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,324 | 20 | #1,549 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,790 | 21 | #1,487 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,881 | 25 | #1,330 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,956 | 27 | #1,286 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,221 | 27 | #1,290 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,414 | 36 | #1,078 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,464 | 24 | #1,398 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,927 | 39 | #1,043 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,732 | 34 | #1,128 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,352 | 16 | #1,866 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,293 | 21 | #1,555 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,901 | 23 | #1,541 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,761 | 14 | #2,121 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,318 | 20 | #1,723 |
| 1927 | under 5 | 24 | #1,570 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 29 | #1,363 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 14 | #2,221 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,608 | 15 | #2,152 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,185 | 14 | #2,255 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,079 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 12 | #2,525 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 12 | #2,493 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 8 | #3,180 | |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,018 | 12 | #2,431 |
| 1917 | under 5 | 10 | #2,602 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 7 | #3,258 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 7 | #3,160 | |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,762 | 6 | #2,999 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Doyce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,118 Americans recorded as Doyce, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Doyce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doyce, and how old are they?
An estimated 345 Americans named Doyce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 568 people named Doyce (139 women and girls, 429 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Doyce born?
The states with the most babies named Doyce are Texas, Alabama and Arkansas, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 201 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Alabama | 65 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Arkansas | 33 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Doyce is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Doyce is most over-represented in Texas: since 1914 it was given 3.1 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 Doyce 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 Doyce
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 Doyce and names like it
- Compare Doyce and VerlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDoyce peaked in 1936.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doyce since 1910.
- The top names of 1936The year the most babies were named Doyce.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doyce alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.