boys:
10.8k births since 1880
#1116 (76th percentile)
overall:
10.8k births since 1880
#2539 (67th percentile)
The name Duke is the #2,539 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,822 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 67.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,116 (75.7% percentile) for all time with 10,822 births since 1880.
Duke has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Duke is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Duke reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 47.3% percentile (ranked #484) with 271 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 272 births per million (ranked 46.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Duke ranks #556 for boys (39.0% percentile) with 215 births per million, which is 78.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Duke".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Duke. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Duke is pronounced as duek, which has 1 syllables.
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