Doc
#3,974 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Doc has been given to 1,391 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,974 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Doc, 2025
1 in 123,000
Doc over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Doc?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 63,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,974
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Doc sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doc. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Docs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Doc was born before 1936 — so the typical Doc is around 89 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 12.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 627
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 12.7% of all recorded uses (177).
Is Doc 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
- −151
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +600
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,659
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.70×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 73.0%
- Peak was 2021 (37)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.5% average annual change
Where Doc is used
Across 1910–2025, Doc was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 409,992 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Doc has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Doc around the world
Where Doc 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.
- South Australia1996–1996#540in 1996
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Doc by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Doc
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Doc
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.