Girl

Doris

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,909
58 girls
2015
#2,216
rank
1950
#74
rank

Doris: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #6 in 1929.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #6 in 1929; #2,909 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Doris in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,909 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #6.

Babies in 2025
58
Since 1880
465,789
Years on record
146

Babies named Doris, every year since 1880

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Girls

Doris: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 girls in 2025. Peak: #6 in 1929 · most girls in one year: 16,575 (1928).

About the name Doris

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.

Meaning

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.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, Estonian and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Dorise (461), Dorys (51), Doras (51), Dorisa (49), Dories (46), Dorit (45), Dorus (24), Dores (23), Dorese (12).

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.

Nicknames

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Doris by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New York6#1,885#1,158
California10#1,988#1,180

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202558#2,909——
202486#2,205——
202377#2,359——
202286#2,197——
202174#2,423——
202074#2,380——
2019118#1,749——
2018111#1,835——
201792#2,099——
2016118#1,762——
201585#2,216——
2014124#1,698——
201382#2,266——
2012102#1,931——
201175#2,442——
201067#2,676——
200981#2,382——
200894#2,141——
200793#2,150——
200690#2,151——
200592#2,032——
2004102#1,856——
200390#2,004——
200291#1,941——
2001108#1,674——
2000105#1,680——
1999116#1,483——
1998121#1,420——
1997118#1,413——
1996128#1,334——
1995145#1,185——
1994170#1,068——
1993179#1,029——
1992224#882——
1991214#907——
1990230#857——
1989207#8876#7,237
1988225#813——
1987227#7817#5,660
1986212#7945#7,022
1985264#681——
1984245#685——
1983248#6835#6,519
1982270#660——
1981271#652——
1980298#6177#5,087
1979286#618——
1978330#5416#5,256
1977338#5355#6,114
1976352#507——
1975383#480——
1974456#4296#4,787
1973477#4145#5,306
1972605#3636#4,589
1971752#3399#3,439
1970863#3155#4,909
19691,037#27513#2,455
19681,021#26313#2,359
19671,179#2438#3,058
19661,417#21613#2,254
19651,625#2058#3,046
19641,929#1919#2,908
19632,129#1819#2,907
19622,379#1719#2,903
19612,580#16017#2,020
19602,897#14722#1,737
19593,135#13821#1,771
19583,319#13120#1,782
19573,721#11917#1,973
19564,099#10921#1,734
19554,239#10119#1,805
19544,457#9316#1,983
19534,900#8722#1,645
19524,950#8320#1,718
19515,025#8030#1,352
19505,053#7425#1,478
19495,284#6931#1,306
19485,548#6427#1,408
19476,029#5834#1,258
19465,987#5140#1,100
19455,820#4634#1,130
19446,324#4225#1,341
19437,128#4040#1,077
19427,176#4157#868
19417,081#3878#695
19407,767#3174#704
19397,687#2990#612
19388,603#2583#656
19378,883#2291#611
19369,226#1580#655
193510,604#1394#600
193411,627#1193#618
193312,025#1096#593
193212,910#10123#525
193113,629#1095#606
193015,464#9124#534
192916,498#6109#572
192816,575#7104#604
192716,512#7107#604
192616,295#7107#605
192516,075#884#705
192415,786#9104#628
192314,610#1187#694
192213,798#1173#782
192113,152#1381#734
192011,892#1486#695
19199,433#1863#824
19189,061#1964#820
19177,819#2564#787
19167,161#3247#924
19156,292#3449#883
19144,429#3633#970
19133,049#4426#975
19122,657#4820#1,036
19111,812#5620#714
19101,536#6412#945
19091,298#6410#967
19081,155#7013#753
19071,023#7610#886
1906856#838#950
1905812#83——
1904736#889#826
1903629#955#1,168
1902656#93——
1901530#1017#880
1900557#1175#1,362
1899431#1136#962
1898429#125——
1897349#1395#1,106
1896307#1525#1,138
1895198#193——
1894187#191——
1893134#225——
1892134#2235#1,106
189186#264——
189087#268——
188960#315——
188855#325——
188738#350——
188628#407——
188530#374——
188423#416——
188321#414——
188216#462——
188110#549——
18809#594——

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).