girls:
2.1k births since 1904
#3767 (34th percentile)
boys:
559.4k births since 1880
#59 (99th percentile)
overall:
561.5k births since 1880
#111 (99th percentile)
The name Douglas is the #111 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 561,483 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #59 (98.7% percentile) for all time with 559,410 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,767 (34.1% percentile) for all time with 2,073 births since 1904.
Douglas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1904 for girls).
The name Douglas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Douglas reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 96.0% percentile (ranked #27) with 7,574 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 7,976 births per million (ranked 96.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1964, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Douglas ranks #587 for boys (35.6% percentile) with 193 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Douglas reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #690) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Douglas".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Douglas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Douglas is pronounced as DUHG-luhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DOWG-luhs, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AH1 G L AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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