In 2025, 7 US boys were named Dorien, making it the 9,962nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,052 places from #7,910 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 boys named Dorien in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,267, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #5,573 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dorien in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 5 babies. In all, 1,276 US babies have been given the name, 5.4% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 678 babies named Dorien.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 130 US boys were named Dorien; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dori (4,952 babies since 1880), Doreen (46,489 babies since 1880), Dorian (28,728 babies since 1880) and Dorene (7,925 babies since 1880).
Meaning
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.