Dorse
Dorse was last recorded in 1949, when 5 babies were given it; 254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorse?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,829, in 1949; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1929, the peak
Dorse peaked in 1929, when 16 boys were given it, #1,948 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 5 | #3,829 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,162 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,262 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,442 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,676 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,293 | 8.0 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,220 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,903 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,524 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,989 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 7 | #2,954 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,766 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,795 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,366 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,912 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,126 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,092 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,948 | 14.9 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,710 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,438 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,768 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,329 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,360 | 11.9 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,075 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,606 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,496 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,336 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,599 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,256 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,507 | 7.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,135 | 15.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dorse has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dorse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorse, and how old are they?
An estimated 29 Americans named Dorse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 126 people named Dorse (36 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 53 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dorse rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,482 babies since 1880, Dorse is the second most given (3.9% of them).
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 Dorse
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 Dorse and names like it
- Compare Dorse and DorseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDorse peaked in 1929.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorse since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Dorse.
- Names starting with DMost given first.