Doris
Doris was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,909 among girls’ names; 465,789 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 122,000 Americans named Doris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Doris mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Doris is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century.”
From Ancient Greek Δωρίς (Dōrís). Etymology 1 sense 7 is owing to similarity to Boris.
/ˈdɔɹɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Doris?
#2,909 among girls’ names, 2025
Doris fell from #2,216 in 2015 to #2,909 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 36.1 per million.
16,679 babies in 1928, the peak
Doris peaked in 1928, when 16,679 babies were given it (16,575 girls, #7 among girls’ names). The 58 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,909 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,205 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,359 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,197 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,423 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,380 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 118 | #1,749 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,835 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 92 | #2,099 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,762 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,216 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,698 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,266 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,931 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,441 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,676 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,381 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,141 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,150 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,151 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,031 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,855 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,003 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,939 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,672 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,677 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 116 | #1,481 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,418 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,411 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 128 | #1,332 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 145 | #1,182 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 170 | #1,066 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 179 | #1,027 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 224 | #880 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 214 | #905 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 230 | #856 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 207 | #884 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 225 | #813 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 227 | #781 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 212 | #794 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 264 | #681 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 245 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 248 | #683 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 270 | #660 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 271 | #652 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 298 | #617 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 286 | #618 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 330 | #541 | 0.22 |
| 1977 | 338 | #535 | 0.22 |
| 1976 | 352 | #507 | 0.24 |
| 1975 | 383 | #480 | 0.26 |
| 1974 | 456 | #429 | 0.31 |
| 1973 | 477 | #414 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 605 | #363 | 0.40 |
| 1971 | 752 | #339 | 0.45 |
| 1970 | 863 | #315 | 0.49 |
| 1969 | 1,037 | #275 | 0.61 |
| 1968 | 1,021 | #263 | 0.62 |
| 1967 | 1,179 | #243 | 0.71 |
| 1966 | 1,417 | #216 | 0.84 |
| 1965 | 1,625 | #205 | 0.92 |
| 1964 | 1,929 | #191 | 1.0 |
| 1963 | 2,129 | #181 | 1.1 |
| 1962 | 2,379 | #171 | 1.2 |
| 1961 | 2,580 | #160 | 1.3 |
| 1960 | 2,897 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 1959 | 3,135 | #138 | 1.5 |
| 1958 | 3,319 | #131 | 1.6 |
| 1957 | 3,721 | #119 | 1.8 |
| 1956 | 4,099 | #109 | 2.0 |
| 1955 | 4,239 | #101 | 2.2 |
| 1954 | 4,457 | #93 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 4,900 | #87 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 4,950 | #83 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5,025 | #80 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5,053 | #74 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5,284 | #69 | 3.1 |
| 1948 | 5,548 | #64 | 3.3 |
| 1947 | 6,029 | #58 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5,987 | #51 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5,820 | #46 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 6,324 | #42 | 4.8 |
| 1943 | 7,128 | #40 | 5.1 |
| 1942 | 7,176 | #41 | 5.3 |
| 1941 | 7,081 | #38 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 7,767 | #31 | 6.8 |
| 1939 | 7,687 | #29 | 7.0 |
| 1938 | 8,603 | #25 | 7.8 |
| 1937 | 8,883 | #22 | 8.3 |
| 1936 | 9,226 | #15 | 8.9 |
| 1935 | 10,604 | #13 | 10.1 |
| 1934 | 11,627 | #11 | 11.1 |
| 1933 | 12,025 | #10 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 12,910 | #10 | 12.1 |
| 1931 | 13,629 | #10 | 12.8 |
| 1930 | 15,464 | #9 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 16,498 | #6 | 14.8 |
| 1928 | 16,575 | #7 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 16,512 | #7 | 13.8 |
| 1926 | 16,295 | #7 | 13.7 |
| 1925 | 16,075 | #8 | 13.2 |
| 1924 | 15,786 | #9 | 12.6 |
| 1923 | 14,610 | #11 | 12.1 |
| 1922 | 13,798 | #11 | 11.5 |
| 1921 | 13,152 | #13 | 10.7 |
| 1920 | 11,892 | #14 | 9.9 |
| 1919 | 9,433 | #18 | 8.3 |
| 1918 | 9,061 | #19 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 7,819 | #25 | 7.2 |
| 1916 | 7,161 | #32 | 6.9 |
| 1915 | 6,292 | #34 | 6.4 |
| 1914 | 4,429 | #36 | 5.8 |
| 1913 | 3,049 | #44 | 4.9 |
| 1912 | 2,657 | #48 | 4.8 |
| 1911 | 1,812 | #56 | 4.3 |
| 1910 | 1,536 | #64 | 3.9 |
| 1909 | 1,298 | #64 | 3.7 |
| 1908 | 1,155 | #70 | 3.5 |
| 1907 | 1,023 | #76 | 3.2 |
| 1906 | 856 | #83 | 2.9 |
| 1905 | 812 | #83 | 2.8 |
| 1904 | 736 | #88 | 2.7 |
| 1903 | 629 | #95 | 2.4 |
| 1902 | 656 | #93 | 2.5 |
| 1901 | 530 | #101 | 2.2 |
| 1900 | 557 | #117 | 1.9 |
| 1899 | 431 | #113 | 1.8 |
| 1898 | 429 | #125 | 1.7 |
| 1897 | 349 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 1896 | 307 | #152 | 1.3 |
| 1895 | 198 | #193 | 0.85 |
| 1894 | 187 | #191 | 0.84 |
| 1893 | 134 | #225 | 0.63 |
| 1892 | 134 | #223 | 0.63 |
| 1891 | 86 | #264 | 0.46 |
| 1890 | 87 | #268 | 0.46 |
| 1889 | 60 | #315 | 0.34 |
| 1888 | 55 | #325 | 0.31 |
| 1887 | 38 | #350 | 0.26 |
| 1886 | 28 | #407 | 0.19 |
| 1885 | 30 | #374 | 0.23 |
| 1884 | 23 | #416 | 0.18 |
| 1883 | 21 | #414 | 0.19 |
| 1882 | 16 | #462 | 0.15 |
| 1881 | 10 | #549 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 9 | #594 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Doris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doris has been given almost only to girls: 3,241 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Doris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doris, and how old are they?
122,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 26% of the 465,789 Americans ever recorded as Doris. The median Doris alive today is 77 years old; half are between 68 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 174,013 people named Doris (173,498 women and girls, 515 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170,278 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44,800 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 58,600 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
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 Doris born?
The states with the most babies named Doris are New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 34,625 | #1,885 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 32,975 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 26,320 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 21,342 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 20,825 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 19,284 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 15,994 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 15,637 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 14,403 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 14,162 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Doris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Doris is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 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 Doris 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 474,926 babies since 1880, Doris is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 58 babies (100%), 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 Doris
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 Doris and names like it
- Compare Doris and DorrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDoris peaked in 1928.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doris since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Doris: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Doris.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doris alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.