# Douglass (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/douglass/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,795 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,769 / 26 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 6 | 4,619 |
| 1924 | 5 | 5,278 |
| 1935 | 5 | 4,385 |
| 1943 | 5 | 4,850 |
| 1951 | 5 | 5,628 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 9 | 7,809 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12,547 |
| 2007 | 11 | 7,227 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,213 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,143 |
| 2011 | 9 | 8,247 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,335 |
| 2013 | 7 | 9,931 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,920 |
| 2015 | 8 | 8,964 |
| 2016 | 7 | 9,934 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,066 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,674 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,134 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,172 |

## People named Douglass

- Douglass North, American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015)
- Edward Douglass White Jr., chief justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921
- Douglass Montgomery, American actor (1907-1966)
- Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian-American actor
- Douglass Cadwallader, American golfer (1884-1971)
- Edward Douglass White, American politician (1795–1847)
- Douglass Watson, American actor (1921-1989)
- Douglass Houghton, American geologist and botanical collector (1809–1845)
- Malcolm Whitman, American tennis player (1877-1932)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.