Doran
Doran was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,808 among boys’ names; 2,711 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,770 Americans named Doran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 31 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doran?
#7,808 among boys’ names, 2025
Doran rose from #9,822 in 2015 to #7,808 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 5.9 per million.
53 babies in 1956, the peak
Doran peaked in 1956, when 53 babies were given it (45 boys, #1,132 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,808 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,495 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,186 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,072 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,636 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,833 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,095 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,943 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,223 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,120 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #9,822 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,388 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,732 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,074 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,123 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,549 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,208 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,306 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,997 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,567 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,231 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,761 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,150 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,375 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,873 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,802 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,199 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,059 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,374 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,438 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,057 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,966 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,648 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,858 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,496 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,712 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,557 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,318 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,655 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,303 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,743 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,246 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,156 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,534 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,149 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,386 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,613 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,148 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,585 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,129 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,964 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,714 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,560 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,658 | 17.3 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,274 | 24.3 |
| 1970 | 36 | #1,400 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,534 | 15.7 |
| 1968 | 29 | #1,461 | 16.7 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,203 | 22.4 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,405 | 16.8 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,132 | 23.7 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,148 | 22.6 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,103 | 23.6 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,216 | 19.8 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,185 | 21.2 |
| 1960 | 24 | #1,667 | 11.3 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,266 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,240 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,301 | 16.7 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,132 | 21.3 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,079 | 23.8 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,055 | 24.5 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,194 | 19.8 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,156 | 21.1 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,264 | 18.1 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,145 | 21.8 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,391 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,383 | 16.0 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,302 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,080 | 25.2 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,277 | 20.1 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,833 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,934 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,392 | 18.1 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,600 | 15.5 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,586 | 16.4 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,740 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,575 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,645 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,662 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,366 | 24.0 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,571 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,555 | 20.2 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,396 | 23.9 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,154 | 33.7 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,344 | 26.4 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,574 | 20.5 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,660 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,482 | 23.1 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,743 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,643 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,738 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,513 | 22.8 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,710 | 19.3 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,846 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,492 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,494 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,092 | 14.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,837 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,467 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 14 | #1,995 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,893 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,462 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,348 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Doran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,711 Americans recorded as Doran, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Doran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doran, and how old are they?
1,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 2,711 Americans ever recorded as Doran. The median Doran alive today is 51 years old; half are between 31 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,904 people named Doran (209 women and girls, 1,695 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,880 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 70 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 518 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 412 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 366 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 283 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 118 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 35,076 babies since 1880, Doran is the second most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 581 babies (1.7%), again the second most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Doran
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Doran and names like it
- Compare Doran and DorianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDoran peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doran since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Doran.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doran alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.