Meaning not yet researched.
Doreen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #147 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #147 in 1956; #5,132 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Doreen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,132 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #147.
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Doreen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #147 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 2,574 (1956).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Doreen, making it the 5,132nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 711 places from #5,843 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 21 girls named Doreen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #147, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,574. For comparison, it was #5,022 in 2015 and #284 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Doreen in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 6 babies. In all, 46,489 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 16,105 babies named Doreen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 210 US girls were named Doreen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dorian (28,728 babies since 1880), Dorene (7,925 babies since 1880) and Dorien (1,276 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Doran, Doron and Dorion are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Doran (2,711), Doron (655), Dorion (585), Doreene (399), Doren (373), Dorean (341), Dorann (170), Dorin (165), Dorreen (164), Doryan (108), Dorrien (106), Dorrene (90), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Doreen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,843 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,060 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,039 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,538 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,071 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,412 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,891 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,022 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,808 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,699 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,946 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,402 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,995 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,759 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,181 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,281 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,866 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,619 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,421 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,282 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,533 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,591 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1987 | 76 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1984 | 90 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1983 | 120 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1981 | 108 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1980 | 145 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1979 | 151 | #961 | — | — |
| 1978 | 179 | #830 | — | — |
| 1977 | 186 | #808 | — | — |
| 1976 | 212 | #697 | — | — |
| 1975 | 268 | #601 | — | — |
| 1974 | 317 | #530 | — | — |
| 1973 | 351 | #496 | — | — |
| 1972 | 425 | #444 | — | — |
| 1971 | 556 | #392 | — | — |
| 1970 | 706 | #353 | — | — |
| 1969 | 854 | #309 | 6 | #4,077 |
| 1968 | 911 | #289 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,050 | #261 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,212 | #240 | 7 | #3,315 |
| 1965 | 1,511 | #218 | 5 | #4,050 |
| 1964 | 1,831 | #201 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,797 | #200 | 5 | #4,208 |
| 1962 | 1,745 | #207 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 1961 | 1,846 | #198 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,912 | #194 | 8 | #3,153 |
| 1959 | 2,210 | #175 | — | — |
| 1958 | 2,395 | #161 | 8 | #3,095 |
| 1957 | 2,521 | #150 | 7 | #3,328 |
| 1956 | 2,574 | #147 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,557 | #203 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,136 | #240 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,180 | #232 | — | — |
| 1952 | 946 | #257 | — | — |
| 1951 | 815 | #274 | — | — |
| 1950 | 756 | #284 | — | — |
| 1949 | 825 | #267 | 5 | #3,829 |
| 1948 | 868 | #255 | — | — |
| 1947 | 853 | #256 | — | — |
| 1946 | 781 | #256 | — | — |
| 1945 | 481 | #310 | — | — |
| 1944 | 379 | #356 | — | — |
| 1943 | 357 | #386 | — | — |
| 1942 | 334 | #389 | — | — |
| 1941 | 297 | #399 | — | — |
| 1940 | 281 | #411 | — | — |
| 1939 | 271 | #409 | — | — |
| 1938 | 330 | #357 | — | — |
| 1937 | 270 | #395 | — | — |
| 1936 | 237 | #420 | — | — |
| 1935 | 276 | #381 | — | — |
| 1934 | 271 | #394 | — | — |
| 1933 | 309 | #358 | — | — |
| 1932 | 295 | #379 | — | — |
| 1931 | 346 | #343 | — | — |
| 1930 | 254 | #413 | — | — |
| 1929 | 239 | #430 | — | — |
| 1928 | 221 | #465 | — | — |
| 1927 | 209 | #483 | — | — |
| 1926 | 212 | #475 | — | — |
| 1925 | 191 | #507 | — | — |
| 1924 | 185 | #529 | — | — |
| 1923 | 177 | #534 | — | — |
| 1922 | 103 | #717 | — | — |
| 1921 | 81 | #816 | — | — |
| 1920 | 70 | #866 | — | — |
| 1919 | 59 | #918 | — | — |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1917 | 45 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,775 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).