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Doyal vs Doylene

American parents have registered 1,149 Doyals since 1880, against 258 Doylenes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Doyal Doylene

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

Doyal has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 1989. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1960, when Doyal had 7 and Doylene had 7.

Side by side

  Doyal Doylene
Total US births 1,149258
Most in one year 3916
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 350160
Median age today 7374
Peak year 19291953
Best rank 1,111th boys2,699th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19121931
Girls / boys 0 / 1,149258 / 0

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.

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