US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE DUKE

Same rise and fall as Duke, around the same years.

WHERE DUKE IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Duke ranked highest in Hawaii (#112) and lowest in New York (#2,783). 24 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Duke name popularity

Duke has been given to 11,595 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2018, when 529 babies got the name, and its best rank was #1,106 in 2018.

In 2025, 390 babies were named Duke (#1,399 in the country), 26% below the peak. That is down 14% from 2015.

Almost every Duke is a boy.

An estimated 10K people named Duke are alive in the US today, with a median age of 12.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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