Dorrian
Dorrian was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 511 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorrian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorrian?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,710, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 2002, the peak
Dorrian peaked in 2002, when 28 babies were given it (23 boys, #3,695 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,710 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,073 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,834 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,377 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,812 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,323 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,058 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,777 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,077 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,923 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 16 | #5,534 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,036 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,888 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,149 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,170 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,055 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,556 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,325 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,643 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,009 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,695 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,003 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,631 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,110 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,228 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,298 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,664 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,336 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,988 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,287 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,283 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,630 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,990 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,782 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,821 | 2.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,072 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,979 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,440 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,720 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorrian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 511 Americans recorded as Dorrian, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dorrian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorrian, and how old are they?
An estimated 499 Americans named Dorrian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 506 people named Dorrian (108 women and girls, 398 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 485 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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).
How common is the spelling Dorrian?
Dorrian is a less common spelling of Dorian: SSA has recorded 511 Dorrian and 28,728 Dorian since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,190 babies since 1880, Dorrian is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 581 babies recorded by SSA was a Dorrian (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 Dorrian
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 Dorrian and names like it
- Compare Dorrian and DorianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDorrian peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Dorrian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dorrian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.