Duchess
#9,017 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Duchess has been given to 221 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #9,017 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Duchess, 2025
1 in 301,000
Duchess 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Duchess?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,017
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Duchess 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Duchess. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Duchesss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Duchess was born before 2015 — so the typical Duchess is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 221
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (82).
Is Duchess 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
- +4,929
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −928
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,320
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.10×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 78.6%
- Peak was 2014 (14)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.6% average annual change
Duchess around the world
Where Duchess 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 & Wales2012–2024#4,844in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Duchess by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Duchess
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Duchess
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.