girls:
4.5k births since 1919
#2528 (56th percentile)
boys:
23.1k births since 1915
#755 (84th percentile)
overall:
27.6k births since 1915
#1529 (80th percentile)
The name Dorian is the #1,529 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,597 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 80.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #755 (83.5% percentile) for all time with 23,068 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #2,528 (55.8% percentile) for all time with 4,529 births since 1919.
Dorian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1919 for girls). Birth data for Dorian is available in 104 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (101 years for boys and 96 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dorian has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 97.3% of babies named Dorian were boys.
For boys, Dorian reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 54.2% percentile (ranked #373) with 306 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 306 births per million (ranked 54.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dorian ranks #517 for boys (43.3% percentile) with 254 births per million, which is 83.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dorian reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 15.5% percentile (ranked #655) with 70 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 70 births per million (ranked 14.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Dorian ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 10.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorian".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dorian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.3% confident that Dorian is pronounced as DAW-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DOR-yuhn, at 15.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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