Dune
Dune was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,925 among boys’ names; 108 Americans have been recorded with it since 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dune by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dune?
#5,925 among boys’ names, 2025
Dune entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #5,925 in 2025.
28 babies in 2023, the peak
Dune peaked in 2023, when 28 babies were given it (23 boys, #4,492 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,925 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,926 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,492 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,075 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,842 | 8.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,677 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,091 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dune a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 108 Americans recorded as Dune, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dune: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dune, and how old are they?
An estimated 107 Americans named Dune and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 4. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 171 people named Dune (54 women and girls, 117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15.5 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 spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 118,058 babies since 1880, Dune is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 66 babies (23%), the second most given that year.
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 Dune
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 Dune and names like it
- Compare Dune and DuaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDune peaked in 2023.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Dune.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dune alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.