Douglass
Douglass is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 575th, in 1942.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1970137 births
- Best rank
- #575in 1942
- Since 1883
- 5,769people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,769 boys have been named Douglass in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 137 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 137 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 19%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Douglass | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 13 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 26 | |
| 1910s | 247 | |
| 1920s | 402 | |
| 1930s | 481 | |
| 1940s | 870 | |
| 1950s | 1,098 | |
| 1960s | 890 | |
| 1970s | 798 | |
| 1980s | 488 | |
| 1990s | 267 | |
| 2000s | 105 | |
| 2010s | 66 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Douglass was the 710th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Douglass
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kennethpeak 1957
- Galenpeak 1949
- Jamepeak 1957
- Neilpeak 1954
- Jeromepeak 1954
- Curtisspeak 1959
- Stuartpeak 1960
- Curtispeak 1962
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.