girls:
5 births since 1968
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
22.5k births since 1918
#763 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.5k births since 1918
#1694 (78th percentile)
The name Doug is the #1,694 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,480 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 78.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #763 (83.4% percentile) for all time with 22,475 births since 1918. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1968.
Doug first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1968 for girls). Birth data for Doug is available in 91 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (91 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Doug has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Doug reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 74.9% percentile (ranked #168) with 841 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 876 births per million (ranked 74.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Doug ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Doug reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #747) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Doug".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Doug. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.0% confident that Doug is pronounced as duhg, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dowg, at 23.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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