Doreen
Doreen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 147th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19562,574 births
- Best rank
- #147in 1956
- Since 1900
- 46,405people given the name
The story in the numbers
46,405 girls have been named Doreen in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 2,574 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 21 births in 2024, against 2,574 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 35%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Doreen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 50 | |
| 1910s | 286 | |
| 1920s | 1,688 | |
| 1930s | 2,859 | |
| 1940s | 5,456 | |
| 1950s | 16,090 | |
| 1960s | 14,668 | |
| 1970s | 3,351 | |
| 1980s | 950 | |
| 1990s | 443 | |
| 2000s | 244 | |
| 2010s | 235 | |
| 2020s | 85 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Doreen was the 147th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Doreen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nanettepeak 1957
- Laureenpeak 1958
- Pattipeak 1958
- Teresiapeak 1956
- Sherylpeak 1957
- Vickeypeak 1957
- Dorindapeak 1957
- Terriepeak 1961
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.