Boy Names That Start With D
Boys' names beginning with D, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 4.5%
- vs 8.2% in 2000
- Names in use
- 803
- 3,616 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1955
- at 11.3% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #11
- by 2025 share
How D has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with D, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,794#35 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 1955 | |||
| 8,085#22 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 395#690 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 1934 | |||
| 381#707 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 308#807 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 6,208#41 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 445#628 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 1,191#284 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 365#729 | Down 76 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 3,277#106 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 2,876#125 | Up 51 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 548#548 | Down 166 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 288#850 | Down 301 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 2,351#158 | Down 32 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 3,213#109 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,074#319 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 699#448 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 541#553 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 1,475#238 | Up 31 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 604#501 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 1976 | |||
| 448#622 | Down 176 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 253#930 | Down 262 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 935#352 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 609#496 | Down 122 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 2,570#139 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 322#788 | Down 196 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 2,487#143 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 1,104#308 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 839#376 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 299#827 | Down 292 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 393#693 | Down 135 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 301#821 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 1986 | |||
| 409#668 | Down 114 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 241#961 | Down 56 rank positions in five years | 1958 | |||
| 557#539 | Down 27 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 578#518 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 254#928 | Down 93 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 834#379 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 339#760 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 393#692 | Down 223 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 390#695 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 529#561 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,043#327 | Up 283 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 396#688 | Up 751 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 309#805 | Up 34 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 243#958 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 295#837 | Down 171 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 233#982 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 271#880 | Up 536 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 327#779 | Up 3,068 rank positions in five years | 2023 |
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D names climbing fastest
Biggest D names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.