Meaning not yet researched.
Dorian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 557 in 2025. Its best rank was #398 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #398 in 2000; #539 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Dorian in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#539 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #398.
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Dorian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 557 boys in 2025. Peak: #398 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 641 (2008).
In 2025, 557 US boys were named Dorian, making it the 539th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #538 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 554 boys named Dorian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #398, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 641, in 2008. For comparison, it was #560 in 2015 and #1,090 in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Dorian, making it the 12,245th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,676 places from #15,921 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 girls named Dorian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,072, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 125, in 1983. For comparison, it was #5,709 in 2015 and #1,532 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dorian in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 8 babies. In all, 28,728 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,429 babies named Dorian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,324 US boys were named Dorian; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 560. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,067 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dorian ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #200 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Doreen (46,489 babies since 1880), Dorine (2,867 babies since 1880), Duran (1,537 babies since 1880) and Dorien (1,276 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dorrian, Dorianne and Doriann 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: Dorrian (511), Dorianne (491), Doriann (339), Dorinne (116), Doriane (50), Dorrion (22), Durin (11), Dorane (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 Dorian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 10 | #200 | #363 |
| Arizona | 22 | #346 | #326 |
| California | 97 | #359 | #536 |
| Nevada | 7 | #403 | #372 |
| Oregon | 9 | #414 | #407 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #417 | #597 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #434 | #659 |
| Washington | 15 | #479 | #576 |
| Maryland | 10 | #482 | #505 |
| Illinois | 20 | #501 | #499 |
| Texas | 65 | #515 | #524 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #519 | #597 |
| Missouri | 11 | #534 | #855 |
| Kansas | 6 | #542 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #548 | #430 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #565 | #414 |
| Colorado | 9 | #582 | #564 |
| Indiana | 11 | #592 | #586 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #602 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #603 | #590 |
| Florida | 28 | #604 | #522 |
| New York | 25 | #605 | #579 |
| Georgia | 16 | #633 | #460 |
| Utah | 6 | #636 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #647 | #624 |
| Ohio | 14 | #655 | #517 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #685 | #691 |
| Virginia | 10 | #687 | #415 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #695 | #468 |
| Alabama | 6 | #703 | #394 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #711 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #715 | #514 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,245 | 557 | #539 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,921 | 554 | #538 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,176 | 468 | #605 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,372 | 526 | #564 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,471 | 497 | #567 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,713 | 559 | #512 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,459 | 560 | #511 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,089 | 545 | #521 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,939 | 527 | #538 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,499 | 531 | #544 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,709 | 512 | #560 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,522 | 516 | #539 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,362 | 486 | #546 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,960 | 464 | #560 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,206 | 490 | #522 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,775 | 514 | #503 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,841 | 524 | #513 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,729 | 641 | #441 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,734 | 542 | #490 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,577 | 578 | #465 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,281 | 625 | #428 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,536 | 595 | #435 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,647 | 560 | #449 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,475 | 586 | #419 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,177 | 603 | #416 |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,412 | 639 | #398 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,694 | 420 | #507 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,587 | 421 | #506 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,830 | 392 | #515 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,782 | 395 | #515 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,627 | 409 | #505 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,640 | 370 | #530 |
| 1993 | 93 | #1,630 | 362 | #539 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,745 | 371 | #524 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,940 | 364 | #528 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,107 | 358 | #520 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,005 | 334 | #524 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,724 | 290 | #535 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,389 | 252 | #569 |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,509 | 187 | #653 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,578 | 225 | #583 |
| 1984 | 109 | #1,200 | 202 | #598 |
| 1983 | 125 | #1,097 | 215 | #575 |
| 1982 | 103 | #1,258 | 221 | #578 |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,517 | 165 | #673 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,342 | 165 | #675 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,522 | 219 | #575 |
| 1978 | 89 | #1,341 | 182 | #617 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,361 | 224 | #559 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,503 | 205 | #567 |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,486 | 223 | #538 |
| 1974 | 110 | #1,072 | 229 | #524 |
| 1973 | 99 | #1,129 | 293 | #456 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,145 | 206 | #556 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,076 | 187 | #611 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,958 | 146 | #686 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,143 | 135 | #676 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,064 | 92 | #774 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,451 | 86 | #788 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,107 | 87 | #780 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,005 | 58 | #970 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,615 | 67 | #931 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,526 | 67 | #912 |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,194 | 70 | #910 |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,432 | 66 | #940 |
| 1960 | 88 | #1,164 | 55 | #1,036 |
| 1959 | 80 | #1,194 | 53 | #1,063 |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,342 | 53 | #1,052 |
| 1957 | 63 | #1,335 | 65 | #940 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,642 | 54 | #1,021 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,429 | 69 | #893 |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,438 | 55 | #1,012 |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,301 | 62 | #912 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,587 | 35 | #1,251 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,618 | 44 | #1,084 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,532 | 42 | #1,090 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,571 | 58 | #907 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,554 | 49 | #1,005 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,768 | 56 | #942 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,507 | 61 | #845 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,085 | 32 | #1,167 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,743 | 10 | #2,349 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,790 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,418 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,579 | 14 | #1,930 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,979 | 10 | #2,366 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,526 | 11 | #2,197 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,491 | 9 | #2,523 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,408 | 7 | #2,987 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,380 | 7 | #3,035 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,795 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,411 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,913 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,762 | 7 | #3,313 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,859 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,976 | 5 | #4,375 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,161 | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,597 | 11 | #2,696 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,397 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,322 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,616 | 9 | #3,044 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,523 | 7 | #3,574 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,935 | 8 | #3,179 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,884 |
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).