Doren — boys' name
337 babies named Doren in U.S. Social Security records since 1920, with the highest year being 1957. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Doren was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Doren in 1957 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Doren
The Social Security Administration has registered 337 babies named Doren between 1920 and 2020, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Doren currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Doren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 36 additional births since 1950.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Doren performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Doren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Doren 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 337 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.
Doren at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
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Doren popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1920
- Peak year (1957)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 101 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
337 total births across 101 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1957 with 17 births in a single year.
Doren popularity over time — girls
36 total births recorded since 1950 (Doren as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Doren accounts for 10% of total recorded use across both genders.
Doren by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 86 births that decade — 26% of Doren's all-time total
Doren decade highlights
- Peak decade 86 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Doren's strongest decade
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1920–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.