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Boy Names That Start With D

These are the 120 boy names that start with D, have reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880, and still go to boys rather than girls today. Ranked by the number of boys given each name in 2025, most common first.

All 120 names

  1. Daniel #22 8,085
  2. David #35 6,794
  3. Dylan #41 6,208
  4. Dominic #106 3,277
  5. Damian #109 3,213
  6. Dean #125 2,876
  7. Declan #139 2,570
  8. Dawson #143 2,487
  9. Diego #158 2,351
  10. Dallas #238 1,475
  11. Derek #284 1,191
  12. Dante #308 1,104
  13. Dakota #319 1,074
  14. Dariel #326 1,043
  15. Damien #352 935
  16. Desmond #376 839
  17. Daxton #379 834
  18. Dalton #448 699
  19. Donovan #495 609
  20. Damon #501 604
  21. Denver #518 578
  22. Dorian #539 557
  23. Devin #548 548
  24. Drew #553 541
  25. Deacon #561 529
  26. Dominick #622 448
  27. Danny #628 445
  28. Davis #668 409
  29. Donald #690 395
  30. Dax #692 393
  31. Dexter #692 393
  32. Dennis #707 381
  33. Dustin #728 365
  34. Darius #788 322
  35. Douglas #807 308
  36. Dane #819 301
  37. Drake #827 299
  38. Derrick #850 288
  39. Darian #927 254
  40. Dillon #929 253
  41. Darwin #960 241
  42. Dominik #984 232
  43. Devon #1028 216
  44. Dayton #1097 195
  45. Duncan #1123 190
  46. Darren #1132 187
  47. Dangelo #1154 182
  48. Denzel #1166 177
  49. Deandre #1176 175
  50. Demetrius #1227 164
  51. Dion #1267 155
  52. Davion #1352 139
  53. Deon #1382 133
  54. Dale #1409 129
  55. Darien #1436 125
  56. Dominique #1466 121
  57. Derick #1477 120
  58. Daryl #1529 113
  59. Dwayne #1564 109
  60. Deshawn #1663 100
  61. Deangelo #1668 99
  62. Darrell #1688 97
  63. Denis #1708 95
  64. Deion #1743 93
  65. Don #1793 89
  66. Donnie #1793 89
  67. Devonte #1886 83
  68. Dan #1959 78
  69. Davon #1976 77
  70. Donte #1976 77
  71. Domingo #2020 74
  72. Darryl #2108 69
  73. Demarcus #2167 66
  74. Damion #2258 62
  75. Deonte #2390 57
  76. Devante #2390 57
  77. Darnell #2421 56
  78. Dave #2451 55
  79. Dewayne #2451 55
  80. Devan #2516 53
  81. Duane #2572 51
  82. Dwight #2765 46
  83. Dino #2798 45
  84. Deven #2884 43
  85. Daquan #3181 37
  86. Daren #3181 37
  87. Davonte #3240 36
  88. Darrin #3379 34
  89. Daron #3450 33
  90. Dusty #3513 32
  91. Darin #3583 31
  92. Dewey #3848 28
  93. Donny #3848 28
  94. Doc #3949 27
  95. Donnell #4050 26
  96. Delano #4139 25
  97. Demond #4249 24
  98. Denny #4249 24
  99. Dirk #4707 21
  100. Dannie #5208 18
  101. Darrel #5399 17
  102. Darrick #5861 15
  103. Delmar #5861 15
  104. Darron #6803 12
  105. Delbert #6803 12
  106. Doyle #7679 10
  107. Deron #8910 8
  108. Dell #10695 6
  109. Dudley #10695 6
  110. Delmer #12008 5
  111. Dewitt #12008 5
  112. Dee
  113. Dick
  114. Dickie
  115. Dock
  116. Dolphus
  117. Donn
  118. Dorsey
  119. Doug
  120. Dwain

Also starting with D, and now given almost only to girls: Dorothy, Dana, Dora

Boy names that start with D in the 2025 data

D is the eleventh most common first letter for boys born in 2025: 77,277 of them, 4.5% of every boy in the file. It has slipped from seventh place a decade ago, and its share has fallen from 5.7% to 4.5%.

This list holds the 120 of those names that reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to boys rather than girls. The most common today is Daniel, #22 with 8,085 boys in 2025. 3 of the 120 are in this year's top 100, and 111 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Three other names starting with D are left out — Dorothy, Dana and Dora. Each reached the top 500 among boys at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a boy. Together they account for 61,716 of those 77,277 boys — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Dariel, up from #864 in 2015 to #326 in 2025. Donovan has gone the other way, from #282 to #495. The shortest name here is Dan at 3 letters, the longest Dominique at 9.

Questions about boy names that start with D

What is the most popular boy name that starts with D?

Daniel. 8,085 boys were given the name in 2025, which put it at #22 nationally.

How many boy names start with D?

120 have reached the top 500 as a boy's name and still go to boys today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 77,277 boys born in 2025 — 4.5% of the total — were given a name starting with D.

Are boy names that start with D getting more popular?

D is losing ground. It was seventh among first letters for boys a decade ago with 5.7% of births, and it is eleventh in 2025 with 4.5%.

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