Doreene

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Doreene has been given to 399 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1959, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Doreene, 1972

1 in 449,000

Doreene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Doreene?

Doreene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1972
1 in 449,000
7 of 3,142,796 births
Among girls only
1 in 217,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1972
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
311,204 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Doreene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1972 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 311,204 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doreene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Doreenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Doreene was born before 1951 — so the typical Doreene is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
214
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1950s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Doreene rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (18)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,476
1938

Spellings of Doreene

Doreene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 60.0% against Doreene's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Doreene is used

Across 1910–2025, Doreene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Doreene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Doreene by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,476
1938
Peak year
1959
18 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1972
All-time count
399
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Doreene

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Sibling names for Doreene

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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