Doris
Doris is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 86 births. Its best rank was 6th, in 1929.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 860.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 192816,574 births
- Best rank
- #6in 1929
- Since 1880
- 465,726people given the name
The story in the numbers
462,485 girls have been named Doris in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 16,574 births — 1.4% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 86 births in 2024, against 16,574 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 33%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 53 of them in the top 100 and 10 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 3,241 boys have also been given it, 0.70% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Doris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 290 | |
| 1890s | 2,342 | |
| 1900s | 8,252 | |
| 1910s | 53,249 | |
| 1920s | 151,192 | |
| 1930s | 110,657 | |
| 1940s | 64,142 | |
| 1950s | 42,897 | |
| 1960s | 18,192 | |
| 1970s | 4,842 | |
| 1980s | 2,469 | |
| 1990s | 1,645 | |
| 2000s | 946 | |
| 2010s | 974 | |
| 2020s | 396 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Doris was the 7th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Doris
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorthypeak 1927
- Ardispeak 1928
- Lavernepeak 1924
- Loispeak 1927
- Maudinepeak 1925
- Emogenepeak 1927
- Marcellinepeak 1928
- Nelmapeak 1926
Other spellings in the data
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.