Dorman
Dorman was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 1,898 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,765, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 1928, the peak
Dorman peaked in 1928, when 64 boys were given it, #821 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #12,765 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,048 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,236 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,654 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,145 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,613 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,528 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,947 | 8.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,457 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,639 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 8 | #3,792 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,588 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,438 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,351 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,455 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,813 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,390 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,514 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,844 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 17 | #1,994 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,121 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,114 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,084 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,059 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 17 | #1,994 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,970 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,905 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,846 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,694 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,778 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,338 | 16.2 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,763 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,610 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,344 | 16.2 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,470 | 14.1 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,435 | 14.8 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,613 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,219 | 20.3 |
| 1945 | 40 | #1,009 | 29.7 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,541 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,541 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,365 | 18.8 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,115 | 28.5 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,096 | 31.1 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,072 | 32.5 |
| 1938 | 46 | #928 | 41.5 |
| 1937 | 48 | #899 | 45.0 |
| 1936 | 39 | #1,017 | 37.6 |
| 1935 | 53 | #860 | 50.9 |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,065 | 36.8 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,035 | 39.3 |
| 1932 | 46 | #969 | 44.1 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,038 | 40.4 |
| 1930 | 59 | #857 | 53.8 |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,031 | 40.9 |
| 1928 | 64 | #821 | 57.8 |
| 1927 | 56 | #912 | 49.7 |
| 1926 | 48 | #995 | 43.2 |
| 1925 | 47 | #999 | 42.1 |
| 1924 | 54 | #952 | 47.7 |
| 1923 | 51 | #964 | 46.5 |
| 1922 | 48 | #1,028 | 44.1 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,033 | 41.8 |
| 1920 | 45 | #1,038 | 42.3 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,195 | 35.7 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,016 | 43.4 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,121 | 38.9 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,163 | 36.0 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,379 | 28.3 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,234 | 35.1 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,179 | 37.1 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,441 | 27.9 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,434 | 32.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dorman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dorman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorman, and how old are they?
An estimated 506 Americans named Dorman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 716 people named Dorman (16 women and girls, 700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 668 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Dorman born?
The states with the most babies named Dorman are Texas, Kentucky and North Carolina, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 223 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Kentucky | 55 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Dorman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dorman is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 boys’ 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 Dorman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dorman
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 Dorman and names like it
- Compare Dorman and ThurmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDorman peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorman since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Dorman.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dorman alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.