girls:
462.4k births since 1880
#72 (99th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1892
#2193 (52nd percentile)
overall:
465.6k births since 1880
#144 (98th percentile)
The name Doris is the #144 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 465,635 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #72 (98.8% percentile) for all time with 462,394 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,193 (52.2% percentile) for all time with 3,241 births since 1892.
Doris has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1892 for boys).
The name Doris has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Doris reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 99.2% percentile (ranked #6) with 14,251 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 14,251 births per million (ranked 99.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Doris ranks #876 for girls (7.5% percentile) with 43 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Doris reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 22.3% percentile (ranked #412) with 114 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 114 births per million (ranked 22.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Doris".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Doris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Doris is pronounced as DAW-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-ruhs, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like D AO1 R IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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