Dorian
Dorian was given to 557 boys in 2025, #539 among boys’ names; 28,728 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,100 Americans named Dorian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dorian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dorian is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, famously used by Oscar Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).”
Constructed like the French Doriens. From the Latin root of Dōres + -ian. Compare Ancient Greek Δωριεύς (Dōrieús, “of Doris”).
/ˈdɔːɹiən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dorian?
#539 among boys’ names, 2025
Dorian rose from #560 in 2015 to #539 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.27 to 0.33 per 1,000.
703 babies in 2000, the peak
Dorian peaked in 2000, when 703 babies were given it (639 boys, #398 among boys’ names). The 564 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,241 | 557 | #539 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,916 | 554 | #538 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,171 | 468 | #605 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,367 | 526 | #564 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,466 | 497 | #567 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,709 | 559 | #512 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,455 | 560 | #511 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,085 | 545 | #521 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,935 | 527 | #538 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,497 | 531 | #544 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,707 | 512 | #560 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,520 | 516 | #539 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,360 | 486 | #546 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,957 | 464 | #560 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,203 | 490 | #522 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,774 | 514 | #503 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,840 | 524 | #513 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,728 | 641 | #441 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,733 | 542 | #490 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,576 | 578 | #465 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,277 | 625 | #428 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,533 | 595 | #435 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,644 | 560 | #449 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,472 | 586 | #419 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,173 | 603 | #416 |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,408 | 639 | #398 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,692 | 420 | #507 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,585 | 421 | #506 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,827 | 392 | #515 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,780 | 395 | #515 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,623 | 409 | #505 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,635 | 370 | #529 |
| 1993 | 93 | #1,627 | 362 | #539 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,741 | 371 | #524 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,934 | 364 | #528 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,102 | 358 | #519 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,000 | 334 | #523 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,722 | 290 | #535 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,388 | 252 | #569 |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,509 | 187 | #653 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,577 | 225 | #583 |
| 1984 | 109 | #1,200 | 202 | #598 |
| 1983 | 125 | #1,097 | 215 | #575 |
| 1982 | 103 | #1,258 | 221 | #578 |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,517 | 165 | #673 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,342 | 165 | #675 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,522 | 219 | #575 |
| 1978 | 89 | #1,341 | 182 | #617 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,361 | 224 | #559 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,503 | 205 | #567 |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,486 | 223 | #538 |
| 1974 | 110 | #1,072 | 229 | #524 |
| 1973 | 99 | #1,129 | 293 | #456 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,145 | 206 | #556 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,076 | 187 | #611 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,958 | 146 | #686 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,143 | 135 | #676 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,064 | 92 | #774 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,451 | 86 | #788 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,106 | 87 | #780 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,005 | 58 | #970 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,615 | 67 | #931 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,526 | 67 | #911 |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,194 | 70 | #909 |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,431 | 66 | #939 |
| 1960 | 88 | #1,163 | 55 | #1,035 |
| 1959 | 80 | #1,193 | 53 | #1,062 |
| 1958 | 62 | #1,341 | 53 | #1,051 |
| 1957 | 63 | #1,334 | 65 | #939 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,641 | 54 | #1,020 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,428 | 69 | #892 |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,437 | 55 | #1,011 |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,300 | 62 | #911 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,586 | 35 | #1,250 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,617 | 44 | #1,083 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,531 | 42 | #1,089 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,570 | 58 | #906 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,553 | 49 | #1,004 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,767 | 56 | #941 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,506 | 61 | #845 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,084 | 32 | #1,166 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,741 | 10 | #2,348 |
| 1943 | under 5 | 8 | #2,789 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 10 | #2,417 | |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,577 | 14 | #1,930 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,977 | 10 | #2,366 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,524 | 11 | #2,197 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,489 | 9 | #2,523 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,406 | 7 | #2,987 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,360 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,378 | 7 | #3,035 |
| 1934 | under 5 | 8 | #2,794 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 10 | #2,410 | |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,349 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 8 | #2,912 | |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,760 | 7 | #3,311 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,857 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,975 | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,159 | 5 | #4,371 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,595 | 11 | #2,695 |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,394 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,320 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,614 | 9 | #3,043 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,521 | 7 | #3,573 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,933 | 8 | #3,178 |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #2,883 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dorian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 28,728 Americans recorded as Dorian, 16% are girls and 84% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Dorian every year since 1963. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 557 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dorian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorian, and how old are they?
27,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 28,728 Americans ever recorded as Dorian. The median Dorian alive today is 25 years old; half are between 13 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 22,292 people named Dorian (4,248 women and girls, 18,044 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 69 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,490 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,850 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,000 |
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 Dorian born?
The states with the most babies named Dorian are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 97 | #359 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 65 | #515 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 28 | #604 | 1.1× |
| New York | 25 | #605 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 22 | #346 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 20 | #501 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #519 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #417 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 16 | #633 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 15 | #548 | 1.2× |
Where Dorian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dorian is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1915 it was given 1.2 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 boys’ 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 Dorian 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 35,076 babies since 1880, Dorian is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 564 of their 581 babies (97%), 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 Dorian
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 Dorian and names like it
- Compare Dorian and DoranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDorian peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorian since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Dorian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dorian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.