Dorenda
Dorenda was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 483 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorenda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorenda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,935, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1958, the peak
Dorenda peaked in 1958, when 24 girls were given it, #2,340 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #12,935 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,426 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,579 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,722 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,932 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,272 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,175 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,034 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,188 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,265 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 12 | #4,797 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,777 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,871 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,695 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,092 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,502 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,355 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,897 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,601 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,598 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,028 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,374 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,756 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,653 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,926 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,471 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,340 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,582 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,476 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,865 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,807 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,541 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,613 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,550 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,942 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,444 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,451 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,460 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,716 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,811 | 8.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorenda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dorenda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dorenda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorenda, and how old are they?
An estimated 408 Americans named Dorenda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 56 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 432 people named Dorenda (432 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 431 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,284 babies since 1880, Dorenda is the second most given (9.1% of them).
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 Dorenda
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 Dorenda and names like it
- Compare Dorenda and DorindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDorenda peaked in 1958.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorenda since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Dorenda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dorenda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.