Dorsa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Dorsa

The Social Security Administration has registered 78 babies named Dorsa between 2004 and 2022, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dorsa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 8 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dorsa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 32 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Dorsa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dorsa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dorsa 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 78 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.