Duff
Last seen for boys in 2008 at #11,037
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 441since 1880
Duff over time
Rank among boys' names. Duff has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
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| 2008 | #11,037 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1963 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #2,186 | 14 |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 16 |
| 1960 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1959 | #1,865 | 19 |
| 1958 | #2,370 | 12 |
| 1957 | #2,190 | 14 |
| 1956 | #1,385 | 31 |
| 1955 | #1,611 | 23 |
| 1954 | #1,292 | 34 |
| 1953 | #1,709 | 20 |
| 1952 | #2,376 | 11 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | #2,788 | 8 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
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| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #2,872 | 7 |
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| 1937 | #2,905 | 7 |
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| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
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| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
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| 1924 | #3,023 | 9 |
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| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
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| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #943 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Duff was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Duff is popular in 1954
No state had 5 or more boys named Duff in 1954, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Duff
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2008
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #909 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1882
- Highest: 1 in 22,098 boys born in 1880 were named Duff (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 340,025 boys born in 2008 (0.00%)
- 40.1% of all boys named Duff (177) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | #909 (1880) | #926 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 13 | #2,956 (1917) | #3,427 |
| 1920s | 27 | #3,023 (1924) | #3,696 |
| 1930s | 13 | #2,905 (1937) | #3,079 |
| 1940s | 42 | #2,788 (1948) | #2,968 |
| 1950s | 177 | #1,292 (1954) | #2,128 |
| 1960s | 117 | #2,070 (1961) | #2,593 |
| 1970s | 36 | #2,891 (1970) | #4,226 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 6 | #11,037 (2008) | #11,037 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Duff in 1954
Top boys' names in 1954
More about 1954
boys
2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 59,963 of them was named Duff, which outranked 70.4% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,268Rance35
- #1,268Terrel35
- #1,268Waldo35
- #1,292Duff34
- #1,292Brenton34
- #1,292Clem34
- #1,292Cynthia34
- #1,311Abram33
- #1,311Alexis33
- #1,311Caleb33
Tied with 18 names at #1,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 504Arlin#878 → #1,382
- ↓ 347Adan#895 → #1,242
- ↓ 345Dayton#966 → #1,311
- ↓ 302Garey#966 → #1,268
- ↓ 293Bartholomew#975 → #1,268
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.