Meaning not yet researched.
Dori: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #705 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #705 in 1960; #6,608 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dori in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,608 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #705.
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Dori: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #705 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 211 (1961).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Dori, making it the 6,608th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,976 places from #8,584 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 12 girls named Dori in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #705, reached in 1960. The most girls given the name in a single year was 211, in 1961. For comparison, it was #9,109 in 2015 and #3,492 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dori in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 8 babies. In all, 4,952 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,662 babies named Dori.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 108 US girls were named Dori; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Doris (465,789 babies since 1880), Dorien (1,276 babies since 1880) and Dorie (1,771 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dorrie, Doree and Dorri 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: Dorrie (889), Doree (528), Dorri (155), Dorea (66), Dorey (55), Dorry (16), Durie (5).
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 Dori 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 | 17 | #6,608 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,584 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,149 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,742 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,362 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,495 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,269 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,796 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,092 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,294 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,109 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,724 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,866 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,321 | — | — |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,317 | — | — |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,003 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,040 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,998 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,484 | — | — |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,593 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,650 | — | — |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,022 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,315 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,366 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,403 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,415 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,640 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,729 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,413 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1977 | 97 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1976 | 91 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1975 | 96 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1974 | 114 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1973 | 155 | #840 | — | — |
| 1972 | 154 | #843 | — | — |
| 1971 | 163 | #843 | — | — |
| 1970 | 172 | #805 | — | — |
| 1969 | 138 | #900 | — | — |
| 1968 | 112 | #985 | — | — |
| 1967 | 133 | #889 | — | — |
| 1966 | 133 | #869 | — | — |
| 1965 | 141 | #839 | — | — |
| 1964 | 196 | #744 | — | — |
| 1963 | 191 | #743 | — | — |
| 1962 | 198 | #736 | — | — |
| 1961 | 211 | #714 | — | — |
| 1960 | 209 | #705 | — | — |
| 1959 | 169 | #783 | — | — |
| 1958 | 155 | #810 | — | — |
| 1957 | 168 | #773 | — | — |
| 1956 | 112 | #951 | — | — |
| 1955 | 94 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1954 | 63 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,492 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,463 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,749 | — | — |
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).