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The name Duncan is of Scottish Gaelic origin, and means brown head. The table below indicates the number of times the name Duncan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Duncan**
Use of the Name Duncan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
15,545	11,318	7,935	5,137	2,318	818	397

The table below indicates the number of times the name Duncan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Duncan**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	540	12
1881	511	12
1882	550	12
1883	416	18
1884	626	10
1885	507	14
1886	553	12
1887	396	18
1888	511	15
1889	469	16
1890	684	9
1891	612	10
1892	449	19
1893	668	10
1894	685	10
1895	562	14
1896	559	14
1897	806	8
1898	616	13
1899	674	10
1900	588	18
1901	881	7
1902	700	11
1903	557	16
1904	572	16
1905	713	12
1906	770	11
1907	782	12
1908	719	14
1909
1910	830	14
1911	614	25
1912	599	46
1913	651	47
1914	703	54
1915	700	70
1916	746	67
1917	759	68
1918	706	80
1919	757	72
1920	697	86
1921	765	76
1922	738	80
1923	781	72
1924	762	77
1925	699	86
1926	760	72
1927	894	58
1928	675	88
1929	756	71
1930	781	67
1931	783	64
1932	782	66
1933	786	61
1934	865	53
1935	751	67
1936	729	68
1937	715	71
1938	729	70
1939	739	66
1940	636	88
1941	589	102
1942	582	114
1943	611	106
1944	604	103
1945	568	114
1946	583	121
1947	538	157
1948	580	131
1949	568	140
1950	594	131
1951	587	138
1952	583	142
1953	592	147
1954	587	158
1955	618	144
1956	566	179
1957	534	209
1958	476	279
1959	488	257
1960	596	172
1961	652	145
1962	648	142
1963	499	259
1964	627	153
1965	660	126
1966	720	107
1967	797	84
1968	747	99
1969	792	96
1970	713	134
1971	828	95
1972	872	85
1973	727	121
1974	870	85
1975	901	84
1976	929	81
1977	975	77
1978	934	86
1979	966	84
1980	907	97
1981	975	85
1982	922	94
1983	761	129
1984	748	134
1985	689	164
1986	705	162
1987	715	162
1988	727	168
1989	689	209
1990	740	189
1991	664	233
1992	642	258
1993	568	326
1994	512	388
1995	473	456
1996	444	505
1997	377	644
1998	386	639
1999	410	575
2000	448	528
2001	472	500
2002	486	472
2003	542	421
2004	565	397
Totals:		15,545		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Duncan as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Duncan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

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