Dore — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dore

The Social Security Administration has registered 198 babies named Dore between 1929 and 1986, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dore currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1986. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Dore is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 20 additional births since 1950.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dore performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 70 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Dore shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dore in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dore in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 198 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.