girls:
55 births since 1947
#5661 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1912
#2455 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1912
#5188 (33rd percentile)
The name Doran is the #5,188 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,692 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 33.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,455 (46.4% percentile) for all time with 2,637 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1947.
Doran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1947 for girls).
The name Doran has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Doran reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #571) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 33 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). Despite a low point around 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Doran ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 10.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Doran reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Doran".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Doran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.0% confident that Doran is pronounced as DAW-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is daw-RAN, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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