Dore
Dore was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 218 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dore mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dore is “a diminutive of the male given name Isidore.” Its etymology gives the sense “kind of bumblebee” (dore).
As an English surname, from the noun dore (“kind of bumblebee”).
Also as an English surname, from the placename Dorr in Derbyshire or Herefordshire; see Dorr. Sometimes influenced or directly from the noun door.
As an Irish surname, from Ó Doghair (“descendant of Doghar”), a byname meaning “sadness” (compare dubhghrá, from dubh + grá).
As a French surname, from Old French doré (“golden”). Compare Dorais.
As a Hungarian surname, from the adjective dőre (“stupid, useless”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dore?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,425, in 1986; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1958, the peak
Dore peaked in 1958, when 15 babies were given it (10 girls, #4,006 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | #11,425 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,720 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,395 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,173 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,953 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,693 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,094 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,215 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,321 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,124 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 12 | #4,060 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,980 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,200 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,461 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,068 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,076 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,868 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,884 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,006 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,526 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,244 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,071 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,302 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,450 | 2.9 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,749 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 218 Americans recorded as Dore, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dore, and how old are they?
An estimated 182 Americans named Dore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 54 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 384 people named Dore (286 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dore rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 117,261 babies since 1880, Dore is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 117 babies recorded by SSA was a Dore (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dore
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 Dore and names like it
- Compare Dore and DoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDore peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dore since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Dore.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dore alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.