Meaning and history
Duncan is the Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh, from Old Irish elements meaning "brown" and "battle." Two Scottish kings bore it, including the ruler depicted in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606).
20062006: 351 births, rank #656
2007: 288 births, rank #764
2008: 324 births, rank #716
2009: 318 births, rank #735
2010: 329 births, rank #708
20112011: 275 births, rank #800
2012: 263 births, rank #830
2013: 262 births, rank #823
2014: 287 births, rank #800
2015: 294 births, rank #790
20162016: 286 births, rank #806
2017: 251 births, rank #869
2018: 235 births, rank #915
2019: 205 births, rank #1,013
2020: 217 births, rank #982
20212021: 216 births, rank #1,016
2022: 253 births, rank #913
2023: 244 births, rank #930
2024: 195 births, rank #1,103
20252025: 190 births, rank #1,123
Duncan moved from #915 to #930 for boys between 2022 and 2023. Its highest annual birth count came in 1997, with 644 births.