Doren
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Doren has been given to 373 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1957, with 17 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Doren, 2020
1 in 557,000
Doren over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Doren over time
In 2020, Doren went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Doren?
Doren had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 288,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Doren sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dorens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Doren was born before 1960 — so the typical Doren is around 65 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 25.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 263
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Doren 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1957 (17)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.1% average annual change
Spellings of Doren
Doren is not the most common spelling — Owen is, with 17.3% against Doren's 0.02%.
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.
Doren around the world
Where Doren ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Doren by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Doren
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Doren
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.