Dorene
Dorene is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 568th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1958296 births
- Best rank
- #568in 1956
- Since 1909
- 7,925people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,925 girls have been named Dorene in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 296 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 296 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 27%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dorene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 182 | |
| 1920s | 564 | |
| 1930s | 1,050 | |
| 1940s | 1,287 | |
| 1950s | 2,152 | |
| 1960s | 1,888 | |
| 1970s | 602 | |
| 1980s | 112 | |
| 1990s | 71 | |
| 2000s | 12 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Dorene was the 571st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Dorene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darlenepeak 1958
- Pattypeak 1959
- Mariannpeak 1957
- Mariannepeak 1957
- Joettapeak 1954
- Louannepeak 1953
- Arnettepeak 1959
- Noreenpeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.