Doran
Doran is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195450 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 2,701people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,646 boys have been named Doran in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 50 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1950s alone account for 15%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 55 girls have also been given it, 2.0% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Doran | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 125 | |
| 1920s | 209 | |
| 1930s | 224 | |
| 1940s | 249 | |
| 1950s | 410 | |
| 1960s | 373 | |
| 1970s | 269 | |
| 1980s | 214 | |
| 1990s | 239 | |
| 2000s | 184 | |
| 2010s | 116 | |
| 2020s | 34 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Doran was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Doran
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lennardpeak 1949
- Kennardpeak 1954
- Nielpeak 1958
- Alphonzopeak 1963
- Anselmopeak 1990
- Nilspeak 1970
- Parnellpeak 1963
- Ritopeak 1988
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.