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Docia vs Dockie

American parents have registered 1,109 Docias since 1880, against 6 Dockies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Docia against Dockie, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Docia Dockie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Docia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 1980. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1934, when Docia had 8 and Dockie had 6.

Side by side

  Docia Dockie
Total US births 1,1096
Most in one year 336
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1501
Median age today 7391
Peak year 18901934
Best rank 446th girls3,277th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801934
Girls / boys 1,109 / 00 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dockies alive today are over 91; half the Docias are over 73. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Docia and Dockie.