Dorris
Dorris was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 9,035 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,790 Americans named Dorris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 69 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorris?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,571, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
354 babies in 1924, the peak
Dorris peaked in 1924, when 354 babies were given it (304 girls, #392 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #13,571 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,222 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,335 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,813 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,448 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,587 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,814 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,735 | 5 | #6,113 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,666 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,096 | 5 | #5,441 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 9 | #5,595 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,888 | 7 | #4,090 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,566 | 7 | #3,954 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,578 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,205 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,382 | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,075 | 7 | #3,315 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,177 | 8 | #3,048 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,148 | 5 | #4,210 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,267 | 6 | #3,742 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,274 | 8 | #3,116 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,423 | 7 | #3,442 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,897 | 12 | #2,460 |
| 1959 | 47 | #1,585 | 6 | #3,711 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,948 | 13 | #2,292 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,658 | 12 | #2,407 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,938 | 14 | #2,192 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,449 | 7 | #3,276 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,447 | 11 | #2,496 |
| 1953 | 55 | #1,313 | 13 | #2,212 |
| 1952 | 67 | #1,160 | 14 | #2,099 |
| 1951 | 60 | #1,204 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 1950 | 63 | #1,163 | 19 | #1,711 |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,111 | 19 | #1,717 |
| 1948 | 88 | #925 | 24 | #1,499 |
| 1947 | 87 | #951 | 24 | #1,527 |
| 1946 | 87 | #892 | 32 | #1,241 |
| 1945 | 59 | #1,004 | 23 | #1,389 |
| 1944 | 81 | #846 | 21 | #1,494 |
| 1943 | 106 | #754 | 35 | #1,158 |
| 1942 | 82 | #845 | 33 | #1,218 |
| 1941 | 94 | #731 | 27 | #1,279 |
| 1940 | 95 | #715 | 27 | #1,292 |
| 1939 | 113 | #644 | 44 | #944 |
| 1938 | 122 | #615 | 42 | #982 |
| 1937 | 123 | #606 | 53 | #836 |
| 1936 | 118 | #605 | 38 | #1,033 |
| 1935 | 146 | #534 | 38 | #1,045 |
| 1934 | 153 | #523 | 43 | #977 |
| 1933 | 137 | #547 | 41 | #1,001 |
| 1932 | 183 | #490 | 43 | #1,010 |
| 1931 | 178 | #481 | 43 | #1,018 |
| 1930 | 238 | #435 | 40 | #1,093 |
| 1929 | 229 | #435 | 33 | #1,221 |
| 1928 | 234 | #445 | 38 | #1,149 |
| 1927 | 273 | #415 | 42 | #1,101 |
| 1926 | 297 | #398 | 54 | #919 |
| 1925 | 302 | #394 | 51 | #946 |
| 1924 | 304 | #392 | 50 | #997 |
| 1923 | 290 | #391 | 56 | #917 |
| 1922 | 249 | #419 | 58 | #915 |
| 1921 | 254 | #427 | 46 | #1,034 |
| 1920 | 222 | #453 | 44 | #1,052 |
| 1919 | 203 | #467 | 42 | #1,053 |
| 1918 | 164 | #549 | 42 | #1,041 |
| 1917 | 187 | #476 | 45 | #967 |
| 1916 | 159 | #520 | 37 | #1,061 |
| 1915 | 143 | #527 | 37 | #1,055 |
| 1914 | 101 | #558 | 25 | #1,164 |
| 1913 | 77 | #582 | 22 | #1,082 |
| 1912 | 55 | #674 | 17 | #1,145 |
| 1911 | 58 | #559 | 5 | #1,811 |
| 1910 | 49 | #594 | 8 | #1,230 |
| 1909 | 44 | #583 | 7 | #1,184 |
| 1908 | 24 | #796 | 5 | #1,435 |
| 1907 | 30 | #695 | 5 | #1,392 |
| 1906 | 31 | #651 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 28 | #668 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 23 | #732 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 17 | #840 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 36 | #539 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 23 | #668 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 19 | #866 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 15 | #849 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 16 | #851 | 5 | #1,167 |
| 1897 | 14 | #873 | 6 | #973 |
| 1896 | 17 | #795 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,262 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,508 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,378 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,386 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,174 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dorris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,035 Americans recorded as Dorris, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dorris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorris, and how old are they?
1,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 20% of the 9,035 Americans ever recorded as Dorris. The median Dorris alive today is 78 years old; half are between 69 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 3,008 people named Dorris (2,572 women and girls, 436 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,622 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 700 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 870 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 153 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Dorris born?
The states with the most babies named Dorris are Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,015 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 1,001 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Mississippi | 463 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Missouri | 413 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 311 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 310 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 301 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 281 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 251 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 161 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Dorris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dorris is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 4.4 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 girls’ 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 Dorris with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Dorris?
Dorris is a less common spelling of Doris: SSA has recorded 9,035 Dorris and 465,789 Doris since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 474,926 babies since 1880, Dorris is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 58 babies recorded by SSA was a Dorris (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 Dorris
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 Dorris and names like it
- Compare Dorris and DorisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDorris peaked in 1924.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorris since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Dorris.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dorris alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.