Dorn
Dorn was last recorded in 1975, when 5 babies were given it; 237 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,699, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1964, the peak
Dorn peaked in 1964, when 13 babies were given it (6 boys, #3,727 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #5,699 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,176 | 3.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,289 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,660 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,046 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,727 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,740 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,556 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,170 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,735 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 5 | #4,104 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,526 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,092 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,599 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,631 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,525 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,169 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,716 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,820 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,494 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,839 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,928 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,755 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,554 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,945 | 5.7 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,658 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,679 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,350 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,052 | 6.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,912 | 4.8 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,823 | 5.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,470 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,977 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 237 Americans recorded as Dorn, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dorn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorn, and how old are they?
An estimated 134 Americans named Dorn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 62 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Dorn (72 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 34,730 babies since 1880, Dorn is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 581 babies recorded by SSA was a Dorn (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 Dorn
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 Dorn and names like it
- Compare Dorn and DorianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDorn peaked in 1964.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Dorn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dorn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.