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Dock

Boys' name

Possibly pit, depression

Dock has been given to 5,383 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 128 recorded.

Babies named Dock, 2023

1 in 663,000

Dock 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dock: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly pit, depression

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dock means

Dock may mean “pit, depression”, associated with dǫkk.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an English surname, possibly from the noun duck. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). * As a German surname, spelling variant of Docke, related to the noun Tuch (“cloth, piece of fabric”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Dock is used in English.

Dock comes through Old Norse dǫkk and Proto-Germanic *dankwaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Docke.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,383 boys were recorded with the name Dock between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1920; its best national rank was #186 in 1883.

How common is Dock?

Dock had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dock 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dock. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Docks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dock was born before 1921 — so the typical Dock is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.61%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
800
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (1,032).

Is Dock 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (128)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#186
1883

Spellings of Dock

Dock is not the most common spelling — Jack is, with 58.8% against Dock's 0.42%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dock is used

Across 1910–2025, Dock was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 23,936 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 8,333
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 8,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 11,111
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 11,111
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 11,111
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 25,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 50,000

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. Dock has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Dock

People whose public names include Dock, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dock in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dock. Linked forms have their own page here.

Doc

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dock by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#186
1883
Peak year
1920
128 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5,383
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dock

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

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Names with a curve like Dock

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dock, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dock

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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