Dorin
Dorin was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 165 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dorin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dorin is “a male given name from Romanian”
Borrowed from Romanian Dorin.
/dɔɹɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dorin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,563, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1971, the peak
Dorin peaked in 1971, when 10 babies were given it (5 boys, #5,118 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #12,563 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,162 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #11,108 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 8 | #9,206 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,222 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #9,599 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 8 | #6,551 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #7,902 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,555 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,610 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,326 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,487 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,858 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,514 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,717 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,438 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,102 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,677 | 5 | #5,118 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,906 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,631 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,636 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,743 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,708 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,593 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #3,952 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #3,828 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #3,871 |
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 Dorin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 165 Americans recorded as Dorin, 13% are girls and 87% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dorin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorin, and how old are they?
An estimated 146 Americans named Dorin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 851 people named Dorin (208 women and girls, 643 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 35,004 babies since 1880, Dorin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 581 babies recorded by SSA was a Dorin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dorin
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 Dorin and names like it
- Compare Dorin and DorianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDorin peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Dorin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dorin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.