Doraine
Doraine was last recorded in 1968, when 7 babies were given it; 237 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doraine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doraine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,789, in 1968; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1963, the peak
Doraine peaked in 1963, when 14 girls were given it, #3,499 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 7 | #5,789 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,406 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,274 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,618 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,499 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,638 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,328 | 5.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,733 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,582 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,696 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 8 | #4,215 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,618 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,877 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,441 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,957 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,563 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,714 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,796 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,074 | 5.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,907 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,491 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,979 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,501 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,659 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,898 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,759 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,313 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,991 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,648 | 6.7 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,143 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,612 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,959 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Doraine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doraine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Doraine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doraine, and how old are they?
An estimated 120 Americans named Doraine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 63 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 238 people named Doraine (231 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,549 babies since 1880, Doraine is the eighth most given (1.7% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Doraine and names like it
- Compare Doraine and DoreneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDoraine peaked in 1963.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Doraine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doraine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.