Dorian — #540 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dorian

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,627 babies named Dorian between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dorian currently holds the #540 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 641 babies received it in a single year. Dorian is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,534 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dorian performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,893 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Dorian shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,998 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Dorian in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dorian 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 23,627 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.