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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Duncan

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#1,124

down −20 places

2025 births

190

down −5 births

All-time births

21,219

1% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1997
644 births
Best rank
#378
in 1997
First recorded
1880
#540 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1983
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
145 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1997644#378Peak
  2. 1998641#386
  3. 1999576#410
  4. 2000530#447
  5. 1996505#444

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #378 in 1997 · peak births 644 in 1997

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

21,219 boys · 11 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Duncan has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.