Dutch
Dutch was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,458 among boys’ names; 1,446 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Dutch and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dutch by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dutch mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dutch is “a male given name, more often given as a nickname to someone of Dutch or German ancestry than as an official given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “German, Low German, Dutch” (Duch) and “German, Low German, Dutch” (düdesch) and “German, Low German, Dutch” (dūtsc).
PIE word *tewtéh₂ From Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, dūtsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu. Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century).
/dʌt͡ʃ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dutch?
#2,458 among boys’ names, 2025
Dutch rose from #2,819 in 2015 to #2,458 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 32.2 per million.
55 babies in 2012, the peak
Dutch peaked in 2012, when 55 boys were given it, #2,336 among boys’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,458 | 32.2 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,570 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,910 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,527 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,667 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,151 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,063 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,518 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,084 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,797 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,819 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,999 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 50 | #2,470 | 26.4 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,336 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,676 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,835 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,573 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,175 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,530 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,328 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,466 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,663 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,010 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,361 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,951 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,806 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,198 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,942 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,230 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,280 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,106 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,187 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,455 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,343 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,851 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,345 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,089 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,940 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,038 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,986 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,865 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,782 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,069 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,760 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,252 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,639 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,675 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,732 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,986 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,729 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,934 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,519 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,461 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,748 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,914 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,740 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,963 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,061 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,108 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,331 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,366 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,574 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,122 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,223 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,184 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,697 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,647 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,673 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,676 | 4.7 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,976 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,767 | 4.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,414 | 3.4 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,704 | 3.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,822 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,667 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,305 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,858 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,475 | 4.7 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,259 | 7.9 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,813 | 22.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,168 | 41.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dutch a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dutch has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dutch: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dutch, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,446 Americans ever recorded as Dutch. The median Dutch alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,104 people named Dutch (22 women and girls, 1,082 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,099 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 119 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 161 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 428 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 567 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Dutch born?
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 Dutch 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 Dutch
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 Dutch and names like it
- Compare Dutch and MerrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDutch peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dutch since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Dutch.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dutch alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.