Doug
The boy's name Doug has been in the national records since 1918, with 22,473 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 17,000 Dougs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 22,473
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 170th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1918
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 22,468
How old the living Dougs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 22,473 babies given the name since 1918, about 17,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 60 of them are children and 6,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 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 Dougs
- Doug Emhoff (born 1964)Second Gentleman of the United States from 2021 to 2025
- Doug Savant (born 1964)actor
- Doug Jones (born 1960)American actor, contortionist and mime
- Doug Burgum (born 1956)United States Secretary of the Interior
- Doug Liman (born 1965)American film director and producer
- Doug Ducey (born 1964)American businessman and politician
- Doug Hutchison (born 1960)American actor
- Doug Jones (born 1954)United States Senator from Alabama
People named Doug with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Doug is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Doug is most concentrated in Oregon (3.2×), Washington (3.0×), Montana (3.0×), Idaho (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular boys’ names the year Doug peaked:
Doug elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Doug | 24 | 3,079th |
| France boys | Doug | 5 | 3,505th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Doug 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.