Duke

What Duke means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Duke yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #601 in 2015 to #695 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Duke?

US: Falling: down from #601 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1024 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 529 boys got the name (#533 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,380 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,996 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.06 per 1,000 boys), IA (0.58 per 1,000 boys), AR (0.56 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Duke is #695 in the US and #1613 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Duke were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Dak12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Duke

Boys

• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys

For a sister

• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Aria#26“a musical aria”^*
• Mavis#560Editor’s note Up from #1,003 in 2015 to #560 in 2025 in the US
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*
• Melody#79Editor’s note Up from #148 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records
• Briar#400Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #835 in 2015, #400 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Duke’s. Rank is US 2025.