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Doyce vs Doyne

American parents have registered 1,118 Doyces since 1880, against 512 Doynes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Doyce against Doyne, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Doyce Doyne

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 59 years in which either name was published, Doyce for 50 years and Doyne for 9 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Doyce Doyne
Total US births 1,118512
Most in one year 4828
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 360110
Median age today 7678
Peak year 19341934
Best rank 1,038th boys1,266th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19141913
Girls / boys 172 / 94663 / 449

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 Doynes alive today are over 78; half the Doyces are over 76. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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