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#12,520 in 2025Boys' name

To awake

Django has been given to 297 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #12,520 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Django, 2025

1 in 663,000

Django over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Django: meaning, origin, and history

To awake

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Django means

Django means “to awake”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Reported to be the first person singular of a Romani verb meaning "to awake". Could also be a Wallonian version or diminutive of French Jean.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Django (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Django is used in English.

Django comes through French Jean.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jean.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 297 boys were recorded with the name Django between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,200 in 1971.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,773 in 2015 to #12,520 in 2025.

How common is Django?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,520
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Django sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Django. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Djangos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Django was born before 2010 — so the typical Django is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
297
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.8% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Django rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+276
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,747
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.9%
Peak was 2011 (28)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,200
1971

Where Django is used

Across 1910–2025, Django was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 670,489 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Django has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Django around the world

Where Django ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1961–2024
    #6,573
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Django by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,520
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,200
1971
Peak year
2011
28 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
297
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Django

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Django

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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