Dorris — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dorris

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,360 babies named Dorris between 1888 and 1990, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dorris currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 304 babies received it in a single year. Dorris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,675 additional births since 1897.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dorris performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,654 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Dorris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 953 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Dorris in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dorris 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 7,360 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.