Douglass
The boy's name Douglass has been in the national records since 1883, with 5,795 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 3,600 Douglasses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,795
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 709th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 26 / 5,769
How old the living Douglasses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,795 babies given the name since 1883, about 3,600 are alive — 62 in every hundred. Roughly 90 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Douglasss
- Douglass North (1920–2015)American economist and Nobel laureate
- Edward Douglass White Jr. (1845–1921)chief justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921
- Douglass Montgomery (1907–1966)American actor
- Douglass Dumbrille (1889–1974)Canadian-American actor
- Douglass Cadwallader (1884–1971)American golfer
People named Douglass with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Douglass is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Douglass is most concentrated in Maryland (3.7×), Pennsylvania (3.6×), California (2.0×), Michigan (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Douglass peaked:
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Douglass against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.