Boy Names Starting With D

Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin D boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.

How common D names are

51 of the 1,000 most-registered boy names of 2025 start with D, and together they account for 4.3% of the births in that list — the 10th-largest share among the 26 initials. From Daniel at overall #22 (8,085 births) down to Damir, the 50th name, at #982 (233), the first count on the table is 34.7 times the last.

That 4.3% is D's births inside the 2025 top 1,000 divided by the births of all 1,000 names — the convention the reading ranks and counts guide walks through — and the 51-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 50-name depth of the table above.

D names across the decades

In 1955, 17 boy names starting with D sat inside the top 200, led by David (#2); in 2015 the count was 7, led by Daniel (#12). The largest of the 7 counts is 20 (1965) and the smallest is 7 (2015). Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 9 D names, led by Daniel at #22. 2 different names hold the lead across those snapshots: David and Daniel. 2 of the 50 names on the 2025 table appear in every one of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: Daniel and David.

D names held 11.9% of the top-200 births for boys in 1955 and 4.6% in 2015; at the same depth in 2025 the figure is 4.2%. The first-letter trends guide sets D's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.

Faded and new

Set the 2025 table against the 7 snapshots and 15 names drop out — each inside a snapshot's top 200, none on this year's top 50: Devon (1995, 2005, best #119 in 1995), Darren (1965–1985, best #52 in 1965), Darrell (1955–1985, best #91 in 1955), Dale (1955–1975, best #52 in 1955), Dwayne (1965, 1975, best #126 in 1965), Darryl (1955, 1965, best #68 in 1965), Darrin (1965, best #102 in 1965), Darin (1965, best #123 in 1965), Don (1955, 1965, best #125 in 1955), Duane (1955, 1965, best #135 in 1955), Dan (1955, 1965, best #136 in 1955), Daryl (1955, 1965, best #178 in 1955), Dwight (1955, best #142 in 1955), Donnie (1955, best #169 in 1955), and Dana (1955, best #176 in 1955). The years in parentheses are the snapshot years whose top 200 included the name; the most recent of them to chart is Devon, in 2005.

Of the 50 names above, 26 appear in none of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: the first 12 by rank are Dawson (#143), Dallas (#238), Dante (#308), Dariel (#327), Desmond (#376), Daxton (#379), Denver (#518), Dorian (#539), Deacon (#561), Dominick (#622), Davis (#668), and Dereck (#688), and the remaining 14 follow in the table above.

Absence is relative to the committed depth: the snapshot files stop at rank 200 and the 2025 letter file stops at D's 50th name (#982), so a faded name may still be registered in 2025 below that point, and a newcomer may have been registered in a snapshot year below rank 200.

Shape of the list

Medium spellings of five to seven letters account for 44 of the 50 names on the 2025 list (Daniel, for one); 5 are short at four letters or fewer (Dean, for one), and 1 run to eight letters or more (Dominick, for one). The longest spelling on the 2025 list is Dominick at 8 letters and the shortest is Dax at 3.

By popularity tier, the list holds 0 top-10 names, 3 more inside the top 100, 16 in the 101–500 band, and 31 in the 501–1,000 band; none sit past #1,000, so every name on the list is inside the top-1,000 pool the generator's 2025 era draws from.

Both sexes' 2025 D lists carry 5 of the same spellings, ranked once per sex: Dylan (#41 for boys, #808 for girls), Dallas (#238 for boys, #687 for girls), Dakota (#319 for boys, #296 for girls), Denver (#518 for boys, #836 for girls), and Drew (#553 for boys, #706 for girls). 23 of the 50 spellings on the 2025 list open Da-, the letter's most common second letter, ahead of De- (12), and 7 different second letters appear across the list.

D boy names: questions answered from the data

Other letters

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Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.