Dorene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dorene has been given to 7,925 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1958, with 296 recorded.
Babies named Dorene, 2007
1 in 800,000
Dorene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dorene?
Dorene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dorene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dorenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorene was born before 1955 — so the typical Dorene is around 70 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 27.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,837
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (2,152).
Is Dorene 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 1958 (296)
- Years since peak
- 67
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.4% average annual change
Spellings of Dorene
Dorene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 42.1% against Dorene's 0.94%.
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 Dorene is used
Across 1910–2025, Dorene was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 29,092 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 12,500
- 2Minnesota1 in 14,286
- 3California1 in 16,667
- 4New York1 in 16,667
- 5Washington1 in 16,667
- 6Wisconsin1 in 16,667
- 7Illinois1 in 20,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
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. Dorene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dorene around the world
Where Dorene 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.
- France2003–2003#3,920in 2003
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Dorene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dorene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Dorene
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dorene, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Dorene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.