Doctor
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Doctor has been given to 379 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 17 recorded.
Babies named Doctor, 1951
1 in 614,000
Doctor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Doctor?
Doctor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1951, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1951
- 1 in 614,000
- 6 of 3,682,692 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 314,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1951
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 425,442 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Doctor sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1951 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 425,442 children born in 1951 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doctor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Doctors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Doctor was born before 1916 — so the typical Doctor is around 109 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 25.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (97).
Is Doctor 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
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- 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 (17)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.9% average annual change
Spellings of Doctor
Doctor is not the most common spelling — Victor is, with 75.0% against Doctor's 0.09%.
Where Doctor is used
Across 1910–2025, Doctor was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 141,146 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Doctor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Doctor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Doctor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Doctor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.