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Django

Boy

Django is a boys' name, meaning “to awake”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

What does Django mean?

“to awake”

A male given name

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Django a girl's or a boy's name?

Django is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Django in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 12 boys.

Half of all the boys named Django in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2015. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 12 in 20082024
Django in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20243#5,198
20230–
20220–
20213#4,989
20200–
20193#4,913
20185#3,596
20176#3,191
201610#2,287
20155#3,527
20149#2,378
20136#3,096
20123#4,999
20115#3,446
20105#3,478
20090–
200812#1,810
20077#2,554
20069#1,995
20058#2,090
20044#3,147
20035#2,574
20027#1,900
20013#3,255
20000–
19998#1,582
19980–
19970–
19965#2,094

How popular is Django in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Django, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2011, with 28 boys. It first appears in the records in 1970.

Half of all the boys named Django in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

1970Busiest: 28 in 20112025
Django in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20245#12,341
20235#12,232
20226#10,855
20215#12,141
20200–
20199#8,209
20185#12,150
201712#6,681
20169#8,141
201512#6,671
201411#7,043
201315#5,655
201215#5,714
201128#3,694
201011#7,081
200915#5,796
200818#5,063
200711#7,090
200616#5,299
200515#5,273
200412#6,132
20030–
20029#7,048
20018#7,529
20006#9,104
19990–
19980–
19970–
19967#7,129
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19766#4,933
19750–
19740–
19736#4,503
19720–
197110#3,144
19705#4,722

Names like Django

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.