Nymograph

Duke: popularity and history

Explore how often Duke appears in published U.S. birth-name records. Counts describe recorded births, not how many people with this name are alive today.

Male records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 390 births and rank 695.

First published birth year
1880
Total published births, 1880–2025
11,595
Best annual rank
533 in 2018
Duke · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.001.462.91188019522025

The line shows relative use, not raw counts. Gaps are unpublished observations. Open the interactive chart for exact annual values.

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Duke · male records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
2025390695
2024381705
2023395683
2022403678
2021419652
2020424633
2019522541
2018529533
2017523541
2016515558
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Duke · male records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
2025390695
2024381705
2023395683
2022403678
2021419652
2020424633
2019522541
2018529533
2017523541
2016515558

Nearby spellings in the directory

Alphabetical neighbors, not evidence of shared meaning, origin or popularity. Each spelling has its own recorded history.

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How to read these figures

An absent observation is not zero: small counts are withheld, and no published count may mean no births or a suppressed count. Early years are less complete. Recorded sex is a source category, not a rule about who may use a name. Annual ranks order published counts, with alphabetical tie-breaking. National and state totals need not match.

These records describe usage. They do not establish a name’s meaning, origin, ethnicity or pronunciation.