Buck
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning male deer or buck.
Babies a year
53
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Buck by the numbers
Buck was given to 53 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 102 babies in 1919, making it a 1910s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Buck. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Beckstream or small brook124 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a deer
Like Buck, each of these has a deer in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Oscardeer lover; God's spear2,798 in England and Wales (2025)
- Devindescendant of Damhán; fawn-like1,132 in the US (2017)
- Devynfawn-like; a modern respelling of Devin313 in the US (2017)
- Raleighdeer meadow or clearing235 in the US (2017)
- Osianlittle deer; a form of Oisín165 in England and Wales (2025)
- Hartleyhart meadow; deer clearing157 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Buck
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