Duffie — boys' name
34 babies named Duffie in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Duffie was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Duffie in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Duffie
The Social Security Administration has registered 34 babies named Duffie between 1913 and 1951, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Duffie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1951. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Duffie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6 additional births since 1916.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Duffie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Duffie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Duffie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Duffie at a glance
Last recorded 1951Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Duffie popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1951–1913
- Peak year (1918)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1951.
34 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 10 births in a single year.
Duffie popularity over time — girls
6 total births recorded since 1916 (Duffie as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Duffie accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Duffie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 15 births that decade — 44% of Duffie's all-time total
Duffie decade highlights
- Peak decade 15 births
- Runner-up 7 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Duffie's strongest decade
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–1951 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.