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Duke

Pronounced /duːk/

Rank in 2024
#709
Born in 2024
375
Peak year
2018 · #534
Origin
English

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 375 boys were named Duke, about 1 in every 4,574.
  • It peaked in 2018 with 529 babies, ranked #534.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 11,200 boys have been named Duke since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Duke per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
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    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 636 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 648 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,398 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 965 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 808 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,366 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,266 babies, 0.24 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • (countable) A male given name from English; mostly US and rather rare.
Origin
English
Say it
/duːk/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Duke, CC BY-SA 4.0.