Dorien
Dorien was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,958 among boys’ names; 1,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Dorien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorien?
#9,958 among boys’ names, 2025
Dorien fell from #5,569 in 2015 to #9,958 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 4.1 per million.
108 babies in 2004, the peak
Dorien peaked in 2004, when 108 babies were given it (101 boys, #1,404 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,958 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,905 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,627 | 7.6 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,034 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,652 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,369 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,116 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,784 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,121 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,569 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #4,577 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,661 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,927 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,625 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,740 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,497 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,122 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,147 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,066 | 31.1 |
| 2005 | 76 | #1,742 | 38.1 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,404 | 50.9 |
| 2003 | 76 | #1,647 | 38.5 |
| 2002 | 71 | #1,663 | 36.6 |
| 2001 | 76 | #1,571 | 39.1 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,264 | 52.4 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,516 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,710 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,006 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,045 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,455 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,963 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,286 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,965 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,291 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,492 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,235 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,598 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,257 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,486 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,421 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,589 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,541 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,716 | 3.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,839 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,303 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,087 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,380 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,276 Americans recorded as Dorien, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dorien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorien, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,276 Americans ever recorded as Dorien. The median Dorien alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,173 people named Dorien (196 women and girls, 977 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 832 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 186 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,076 babies since 1880, Dorien is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 581 babies (1.2%), again the third 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 Dorien
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 Dorien and names like it
- Compare Dorien and DorianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDorien peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorien since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Dorien.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dorien alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.