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Dolan vs Dolton

American parents have registered 1,701 Dolans since 1880, against 451 Doltons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dolan Dolton

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

Of the 110 years in which either name was published, Dolan for 109 years and Dolton for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dolan Dolton
Total US births 1,701451
Most in one year 3618
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,200290
Median age today 3026
Peak year 19961995
Best rank 2,254th boys3,559th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19141917
Girls / boys 0 / 1,7010 / 451

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 Dolans alive today are over 30; half the Doltons are over 26. That is 4 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: Dolan and Dolton.