girls:
4.8k births since 1892
#2449 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1892
#3936 (49th percentile)
The name Dorinda is the #3,936 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,800 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 49.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,449 (57.1% percentile) for all time with 4,800 births since 1892.
Dorinda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (first recorded for girls in 1892). Birth data for Dorinda is available in 96 out of the 124 years between 1892 and 2015. 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.
For girls, Dorinda reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 25.1% percentile (ranked #560) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 108 births per million (ranked 22.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorinda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Dorinda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.6% confident that Dorinda is pronounced as daw-RIHN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is daw-REEN-duh, at 22.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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