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How popular is the name Douglas?
Births per year, rank history and how many Douglases are alive today.
Douglas (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 224th in 2025 with 222 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1924, when around 2,300 babies were given the name, the 38th most popular that year. It has declined since 1924; the 2025 figure is roughly 10% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 100,000 babies have been named Douglas in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Common short forms of Douglas include Dougie.
The Douglas you are most likely to meet is around 62 years old. Half of all Douglases born in England and Wales are between 48 and 77, and there are at least 41,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 13% chance that at least one of them will be called Douglas.
How many babies are named Douglas each year?
Where does Douglas rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Douglas most popular?
Douglas peaked in 1924, when around 2,300 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Douglas?
At least 41,000 people named Douglas born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Douglas?
Most living Douglases are between 48 and 77; the most common age is about 62.
Is Douglas becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 1924 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.