Doc
Doc reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 3,180, and has been recorded 1,391 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 620 Docs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Doc
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,391
- Estimated living today
- 620
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 3,180th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,949th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Docs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,391 babies given the name since 1880, about 620 are alive — 45 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Docs
- Doc Holliday (1851–1887)gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West
- Doc Shaw (born 1992)American actor, singer and rapper
- Doc Watson (1923–2012)American musician
- Doc Pomus (1925–1991)American recording artist; blues singer, lyricist, songwriter
- Doc Severinsen (born 1927)American jazz trumpeter
- Doc Hastings (born 1941)American politician
People named Doc with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Doc is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Doc is most concentrated in Georgia (8.4×), Texas (7.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Doc peaked:
Related names
Doc against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.