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Doris

Girls' name · Early 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~137,200 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,895 among girls
Births in 2025
58 465,789 since 1880
Typical age
77 years, median

Doris popularity over time

Doris rank by birth year, 1880–2025Doris ranked #580 in 1880 and #2,895 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #6, in 1929.#10#100#1,000#2,895best #6 in 192918901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Doris in 1928 than in any other year — 16,679 of them. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Doris has spent 53 years inside the national top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #2,895 with 58 births. The ten-year change is -32%. Year on year the rank dropped by 692.

Babies named Doris per yearPeaks at 16,679 births in 1928.16,679 in 1928018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Doris?

Roughly 137,200 Doriss are alive in the US right now. That is out of 465,789 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Doris?

The typical living Doris is 77 years old. The 1940s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Doris a early 20th-century perennial name.

Your Doris

Ages of living people named DorisHalf of living Doriss are older than 77 and half younger.median 77020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Doris is most common

Doris is 2.6× as common in New York as it is nationally.

Where Doris is used more than average2 states use the name Doris more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 2.6× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 2.5× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Doris is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New York 115 2.6×
California 246 2.5×

Doris in England and Wales

ONS recorded 6 births named Doris in 2025, ranking it #3,705. That is 33% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Doris comes from

From Ancient Greek Δωρίς. is owing to similarity to Boris.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Doris

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Doris Lessing British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer 1919–2013 133
Doris Day American actress and singer 1922–2019 101
Doris Leuthard lawyer, politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council 1963 53
Doris Roberts American actress 1925–2016 42
Doris Hart American tennis player 1925–2015 34
Doris Dragović Croatian singer 1961 31
Doris Bures Austrian politician 1962 23
Doris Miller first African American recipient of the Navy Cross 1919–1943 23
Photo credits (7)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Doris

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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