Doc

Where Doc comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Doc.

Doc through the years
  1. 1851
    Doc Holliday born
    gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys, with 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #412
    18 babies named Doc, its best rank.
  4. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #667.
  5. 1992
    Doc Shaw born
    American actor, singer and rapper
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Doc Holliday · gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West, 1851–1887
  • Doc Shaw · American actor, singer and rapper, born 1992
  • Doc Hastings · American politician, born 1941
  • Doc Severinsen · American jazz trumpeter, born 1927
  • Doc McGhee · American music manager, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.