girls:
12 births since 1964
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
225 births since 1921
#4361 (5th percentile)
overall:
237 births since 1921
#7502 (3rd percentile)
The name Dorn is the #7,502 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 237 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 3.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,361 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 225 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1964.
Dorn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1964 for girls). Birth data for Dorn is available in 33 out of the 55 years between 1921 and 1975 (33 years for boys and 2 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 Dorn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dorn reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #652) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.
For girls, Dorn reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #782) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorn".
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