Dori
Dori was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,607 among girls’ names; 4,952 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,460 Americans named Dori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dori?
#6,607 among girls’ names, 2025
Dori rose from #9,104 in 2015 to #6,607 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 10.6 per million.
211 babies in 1961, the peak
Dori peaked in 1961, when 211 girls were given it, #714 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,607 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,579 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,144 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,737 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,357 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,490 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,791 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,088 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,290 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,104 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,719 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,862 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,317 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,313 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,000 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,036 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,995 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,480 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,592 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,645 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,018 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,334 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,311 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,125 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,361 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,347 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,412 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,635 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,904 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,724 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,001 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,796 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,233 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,408 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,495 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,102 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,400 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,526 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,557 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,160 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,934 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,830 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,667 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,613 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,380 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,267 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 97 | #1,242 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 91 | #1,238 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 96 | #1,203 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 114 | #1,042 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 155 | #840 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 154 | #843 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 163 | #843 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 172 | #805 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 138 | #900 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 112 | #985 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 133 | #889 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 133 | #869 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 141 | #839 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 196 | #744 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 191 | #743 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 198 | #736 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 211 | #714 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 209 | #705 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 169 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 155 | #809 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 168 | #772 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 112 | #950 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 94 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 63 | #1,248 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,679 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,490 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,239 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,748 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dori has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dori, and how old are they?
4,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 4,952 Americans ever recorded as Dori. The median Dori alive today is 56 years old; half are between 46 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 5,223 people named Dori (5,142 women and girls, 81 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dori rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,580 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,810 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 573 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 351 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 145 |
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 Dori born?
The states with the most babies named Dori are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 551 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 379 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 210 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 186 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 159 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 147 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 127 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 108 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 98 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 97 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Dori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dori is most over-represented in California: since 1946 it was given 1.1 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 Dori 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 117,261 babies since 1880, Dori is the second most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 117 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
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 Dori
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 Dori and names like it
- Compare Dori and DoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDori peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dori since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Dori.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dori alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.