Doreen
Doreen was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,131 among girls’ names; 46,489 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,600 Americans named Doreen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 60 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doreen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Doreen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Doreen is “a female given name.”
From Dora + -een.
/dɔːˈriːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Doreen?
#5,131 among girls’ names, 2025
Doreen fell from #5,020 in 2015 to #5,131 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 15.6 per million.
2,574 babies in 1956, the peak
Doreen peaked in 1956, when 2,574 girls were given it, #147 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,131 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,840 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,016 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,055 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,034 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,533 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,069 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,650 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,410 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,890 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (124)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,020 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,806 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,697 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,942 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,399 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,992 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,757 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,179 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,862 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,614 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,417 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,277 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,529 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,802 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,439 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,588 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,748 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,732 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,446 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,298 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,940 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,353 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,036 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,558 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,926 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,851 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,786 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 76 | #1,619 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,541 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,590 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 90 | #1,344 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 120 | #1,121 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,182 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 108 | #1,211 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 145 | #1,005 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 151 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 179 | #830 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 186 | #808 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 212 | #697 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 268 | #601 | 0.18 |
| 1974 | 317 | #530 | 0.22 |
| 1973 | 351 | #496 | 0.24 |
| 1972 | 425 | #444 | 0.28 |
| 1971 | 556 | #392 | 0.33 |
| 1970 | 706 | #353 | 0.40 |
| 1969 | 854 | #309 | 0.51 |
| 1968 | 911 | #289 | 0.56 |
| 1967 | 1,050 | #261 | 0.64 |
| 1966 | 1,212 | #240 | 0.72 |
| 1965 | 1,511 | #218 | 0.86 |
| 1964 | 1,831 | #201 | 1.0 |
| 1963 | 1,797 | #200 | 0.93 |
| 1962 | 1,745 | #207 | 0.89 |
| 1961 | 1,846 | #198 | 0.91 |
| 1960 | 1,912 | #194 | 0.95 |
| 1959 | 2,210 | #175 | 1.1 |
| 1958 | 2,395 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1957 | 2,521 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 2,574 | #147 | 1.3 |
| 1955 | 1,557 | #203 | 0.80 |
| 1954 | 1,136 | #240 | 0.58 |
| 1953 | 1,180 | #232 | 0.63 |
| 1952 | 946 | #257 | 0.51 |
| 1951 | 815 | #274 | 0.45 |
| 1950 | 756 | #284 | 0.44 |
| 1949 | 825 | #267 | 0.48 |
| 1948 | 868 | #255 | 0.51 |
| 1947 | 853 | #256 | 0.48 |
| 1946 | 781 | #256 | 0.50 |
| 1945 | 481 | #310 | 0.37 |
| 1944 | 379 | #356 | 0.29 |
| 1943 | 357 | #386 | 0.26 |
| 1942 | 334 | #389 | 0.25 |
| 1941 | 297 | #399 | 0.25 |
| 1940 | 281 | #411 | 0.25 |
| 1939 | 271 | #409 | 0.25 |
| 1938 | 330 | #357 | 0.30 |
| 1937 | 270 | #395 | 0.25 |
| 1936 | 237 | #420 | 0.23 |
| 1935 | 276 | #381 | 0.26 |
| 1934 | 271 | #394 | 0.26 |
| 1933 | 309 | #358 | 0.31 |
| 1932 | 295 | #379 | 0.28 |
| 1931 | 346 | #343 | 0.32 |
| 1930 | 254 | #413 | 0.23 |
| 1929 | 239 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1928 | 221 | #465 | 0.19 |
| 1927 | 209 | #483 | 0.18 |
| 1926 | 212 | #475 | 0.18 |
| 1925 | 191 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1924 | 185 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 177 | #534 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 103 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 81 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 70 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 59 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 45 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,536 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,988 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,914 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,149 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,760 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Doreen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doreen has been given almost only to girls: 58 boys in 124 years of records.
Girls and boys named Doreen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doreen, and how old are they?
34,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 46,489 Americans ever recorded as Doreen. The median Doreen alive today is 66 years old; half are between 60 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 40,567 people named Doreen (40,515 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 37,602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,740 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 391 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 287 |
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).
Where are babies named Doreen born?
The states with the most babies named Doreen are New York, California and Massachusetts, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9,774 | #1,884 | 2.4× |
| California | 4,225 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 3,466 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,251 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 3,082 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Michigan | 2,399 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 2,056 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Connecticut | 1,771 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 1,537 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 1,475 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Doreen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Doreen is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Doreen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 47,164 babies since 1880, Doreen is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 babies (100%), again the 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 Doreen
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 Doreen and names like it
- Compare Doreen and DoreanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDoreen peaked in 1956.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doreen since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Doreen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doreen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.