Given name & surname
Duc
“one who has upstanding morals”
Duc is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who has upstanding morals.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who has upstanding morals.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Duc through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 421
- 421 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 24 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,303 as a first name in 2020; 219 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Duc’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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