girls:
4.9k births since 1946
#2417 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.9k births since 1946
#3889 (50th percentile)
The name Dori is the #3,889 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,923 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 49.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,417 (57.7% percentile) for all time with 4,923 births since 1946.
Dori first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946).
For girls, Dori reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 25.4% percentile (ranked #588) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 102 births per million (ranked 25.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dori ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 6.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dori".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dori is pronounced as DAW-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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