In 2025, 58 US girls were named Doris, making it the 2,909th most common girls’ name of the year, down 704 places from #2,205 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 86 girls named Doris in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6, reached in 1929. The most girls given the name in a single year was 16,575, in 1928. For comparison, it was #2,216 in 2015 and #74 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Doris in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 465,789 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 152,135 babies named Doris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 894 US girls were named Doris; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,712 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Doris ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,885 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dorris (9,035 babies since 1880) and Dori (4,952 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dorise, Dorys and Doras are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dora.
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