Don

US Popularity History (1926–2001)

Annual US births named Don by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1946 with 4,111 boys named Don (boy rank #79 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2001, ranked #873 for boys (183 US births). That's 794 places below its 1946 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Famous People Named Don

4 notable figures from history and culture who share the name Don.

• Don Dunstan was a South Australian politician, best-known as the 35th Premier of South Australia.
• Don King — Sports Executive (1931)
• Don Marquis was a famous American newspaper columnist and novelist.
• Don Rickles — Comedian (1926)

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Compare Don to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Don against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

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