Dozier
Dozier was last recorded in 1966, when 5 babies were given it; 361 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dozier by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dozier?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,104, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1917, the peak
Dozier peaked in 1917, when 15 boys were given it, #2,009 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #4,104 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,395 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,757 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,330 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,095 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,955 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,171 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,855 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,832 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,077 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 5 | #3,877 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,972 | 4.3 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,506 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,315 | 4.2 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,664 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,948 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,991 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,955 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,055 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,086 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,157 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,708 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,828 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,052 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,302 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,355 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,612 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,800 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,588 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,361 | 11.9 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,080 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,281 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,159 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,549 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,740 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,009 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,177 | 14.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,161 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,001 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,838 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,096 | 16.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,282 | 37.8 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,098 | 46.8 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,034 | 48.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #987 | 49.2 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,042 | 45.0 |
| 1884 | 6 | #882 | 52.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dozier a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dozier has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dozier: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dozier, and how old are they?
An estimated 62 Americans named Dozier and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 148 people named Dozier (9 women and girls, 139 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dozier
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 Dozier and names like it
- Compare Dozier and NewmanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDozier peaked in 1917.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dozier since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Dozier.
- Names starting with DMost given first.