Dock
Dock is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 186th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920128 births
- Best rank
- #186in 1883
- Since 1880
- 5,383people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,383 boys have been named Dock in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 128 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 128 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dock | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 583 | |
| 1890s | 589 | |
| 1900s | 469 | |
| 1910s | 918 | |
| 1920s | 1,032 | |
| 1930s | 559 | |
| 1940s | 433 | |
| 1950s | 342 | |
| 1960s | 153 | |
| 1970s | 140 | |
| 1980s | 85 | |
| 1990s | 47 | |
| 2000s | 17 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Dock was the 542nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Dock
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Generalpeak 1918
- Ciceropeak 1920
- Eddpeak 1919
- Ligepeak 1915
- Mosepeak 1919
- Claudpeak 1919
- Clempeak 1917
- Ikepeak 1953
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.