How Many People Are Named Douglass?
people named Douglass are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 95,818 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,795 babies named Douglass in Social Security records from 1883 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
137 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of DOUGLAS.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Douglass in English. Counting Douglass and these spellings together, about 391,169 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Douglass (99.8%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Douglass alive today is about 57 years old, and 47% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 45 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Douglass first appears in the records in 1883 and was given most often in 1970, to 137 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1883 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Douglass has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #575, in 1942.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #575 (1942) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #695 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Douglass alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Douglass were born in California than in any other state: about 283 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Douglass was given 3.8 times as often in Maryland, 3.2 times in Pennsylvania and 2.4 times in California.
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