Dorris
Dorris is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 391st, in 1923.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1924304 births
- Best rank
- #391in 1923
- Since 1888
- 9,035people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,360 girls have been named Dorris in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 304 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 304 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 36%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Dorris is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are boys (1,675), most of them born around 1922.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dorris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 84 | |
| 1900s | 275 | |
| 1910s | 1,196 | |
| 1920s | 2,654 | |
| 1930s | 1,511 | |
| 1940s | 845 | |
| 1950s | 494 | |
| 1960s | 202 | |
| 1970s | 53 | |
| 1980s | 35 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Dorris was the 392nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Dorris
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorthapeak 1921
- Dorothypeak 1924
- Marjoriepeak 1921
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Laruepeak 1920
- Erlinepeak 1927
- Alenepeak 1920
- Jaunitapeak 1924
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.