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Dutch

#2,458 in 2025Boys' name

German, Low German, Dutch

Dutch has been given to 1,446 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #2,458 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Dutch, 2025

1 in 60,300

Dutch over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dutch: meaning, origin, and history

German, Low German, Dutch

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dutch means

Dutch means “German, Low German, Dutch”, associated with Duch.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

PIE word *tewtéh₂ From Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, dūtsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Dutch is used in English.

Dutch comes through Middle English Duch, Middle Low German dütsch, Middle Dutch dutsch, Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz and Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dutch is pronounced /dʌt͡ʃ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,446 boys were recorded with the name Dutch between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,168 in 1903.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,151 in 2020 to #2,458 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,819 in 2015 to #2,458 in 2025.

How common is Dutch?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,458
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dutch 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dutch. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dutchs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dutch was born before 2009 — so the typical Dutch is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,397
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (443).

Is Dutch 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
+112
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+693
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+361
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2012 (55)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,168
1903

Spellings of Dutch

Dutch is not the most common spelling — Mitch is, with 40.4% against Dutch's 10.5%.

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 Dutch is used

Across 1910–2025, Dutch was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 259,375 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Idaho1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Dutch has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dutch around the world

Where Dutch 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
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2011–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dutch by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,458
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 693
Best rank ever
#1,168
1903
Peak year
2012
55 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,446
Count in 2025
55

Names similar to Dutch

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

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Sibling names for Dutch

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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