Dorinda
Dorinda was last recorded in 2015, when 8 babies were given it; 4,801 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,780 Americans named Dorinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 56 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dorinda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dorinda is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
An 18th-century coinage from Dora or Dorothy, + -inda.
/dɔːˈɹɪn.də/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dorinda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,143, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
202 babies in 1957, the peak
Dorinda peaked in 1957, when 202 girls were given it, #699 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,143 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,598 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,362 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,066 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,325 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,989 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,376 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,419 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,338 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,015 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #14,820 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,010 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,260 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,070 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,231 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,790 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,078 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,621 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,908 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,881 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,908 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,888 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,440 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,171 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,552 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,815 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,281 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,318 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,135 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,621 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,918 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,392 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,529 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,476 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 95 | #1,195 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 114 | #1,069 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 118 | #995 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 127 | #918 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 124 | #920 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 124 | #905 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 129 | #878 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 150 | #851 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 180 | #769 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 194 | #739 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 146 | #890 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 167 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 166 | #792 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 172 | #758 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 202 | #699 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 197 | #682 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 135 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 129 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 127 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 120 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 64 | #1,170 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 89 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 82 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 104 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 91 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 72 | #987 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 81 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 147 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,968 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,139 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,908 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,705 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,125 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,551 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,438 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,103 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,334 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,748 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,819 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,354 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,095 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,598 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,935 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,973 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,337 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,897 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,717 | 0.01 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dorinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dorinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorinda, and how old are they?
3,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 4,801 Americans ever recorded as Dorinda. The median Dorinda alive today is 64 years old; half are between 56 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 4,069 people named Dorinda (4,068 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,057 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 200 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,060 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 257 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 73 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8 |
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 Dorinda born?
The states with the most babies named Dorinda are California, New York and Texas, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 369 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 315 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 305 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 168 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 152 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 115 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 96 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 91 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 75 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 73 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Dorinda 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,284 babies since 1880, Dorinda is the most given (91% of them).
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 Dorinda
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 Dorinda and names like it
- Compare Dorinda and DorendaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDorinda peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorinda since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Dorinda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Dorinda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dorinda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.