girls:
69 births since 1941
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1970
#3417 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1941
#6482 (16th percentile)
The name Dorien is the #6,482 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,259 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 16.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,417 (25.4% percentile) for all time with 1,190 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1941.
Dorien first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Dorien is available in 51 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023 (45 years for boys and 13 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 Dorien has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.5% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1970, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1941 to 1969), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (96.9% boys from 1970 to 2023).
For boys, Dorien reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 12.1% percentile (ranked #716) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 49 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dorien ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 14.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dorien reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorien".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Dorien. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.0% confident that Dorien is pronounced as DAW-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-ree-ehn, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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