Dorma — girls' name
690 babies named Dorma in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1925. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Dorma was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Dorma in 1925 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dorma
The Social Security Administration has registered 690 babies named Dorma between 1915 and 1966, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dorma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1966. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dorma performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 214 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Dorma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in West Virginia, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Dorma in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dorma 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 690 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.
Dorma at a glance
Last recorded 1966Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dorma popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1966–1915
- Peak year (1925)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1966.
690 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1925 with 26 births in a single year.
Dorma by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 214 births that decade — 31% of Dorma's all-time total
Dorma decade highlights
- Peak decade 214 births
- Runner-up 202 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Dorma's strongest decade
214 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Dorma by state
Where Dorma concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | West Virginia | | 47 | 6.8% |
| #2 | Oklahoma | | 39 | 5.7% |
| #3 | Missouri | | 5 | 0.7% |
47 of 690 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- West Virginia 6.8% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 5.7% of nationwide
- Missouri 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
West Virginia accounts for 6.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1966 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.