Doc

boys’ nameRisingCompare

Doc is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. Its best rank was 415th, in 1883.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 290.00% of boys
Peak year: 202137 births
Best rank: #415in 1883
Since 1880: 1,364people given the name

Babies named Doc, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

1,364 boys have been named Doc in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 37 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 2010s alone account for 13%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Doc
1880s	121
1890s	90
1900s	88
1910s	166
1920s	170
1930s	68
1940s	61
1950s	63
1960s	41
1970s	27
1980s	38
1990s	32
2000s	83
2010s	177
2020s	139

In 2021, its biggest year

Doc was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Doc

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Dock5,383 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.