Doc vs Docia
American parents have registered 1,391 Docs since 1880, against 1,109 Docias. Doc is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Doc Docia
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 129 years in which either name was published, Doc for 70 years and Docia for 59 years. The lead changed hands 35 times.
- 1884–1906 Docia ahead
- 1911–1913 Doc ahead
- 1926–1928 Docia ahead
- 1929–1931 Doc ahead
- 1932–1942 Docia ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1943–1945 Doc ahead
- 1946–1950 Docia ahead
- 1959–2025 Doc ahead, apart from one short spell
26 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Doc | Docia | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,391 | 1,109 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 33 |
| Babies in 2025 | 27 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 620 | 150 |
| Median age today | 13 | 73 |
| Peak year | 2021 | 1890 |
| Best rank | 3,180th boys | 446th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,949th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,391 | 1,109 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Docias alive today are over 73; half the Docs are over 13. That is 60 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Doc and Docia.