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Dori

#6,607 in 2025Girls' name

My generation

Dori has been given to 4,952 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #6,607 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 211 recorded.

Babies named Dori, 2025

1 in 195,000

Dori 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dori: meaning, origin, and history

My generation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dori means

Dori means “my generation”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,952 girls were recorded with the name Dori between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 211 in 1961; its best national rank was #705 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,490 in 2020 to #6,607 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,104 in 2015 to #6,607 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dori?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,607
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dori 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dori. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Doris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dori was born before 1969 — so the typical Dori is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,912
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (1,662).

Is Dori 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
+1,972
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,883
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,497
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.1%
Peak was 1961 (211)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#705
1960

Spellings of Dori

Dori is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 21.1% against Dori's 0.23%.

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 Dori is used

Across 1910–2025, Dori was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 50,393 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 33,333
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Washington1 in 33,333
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 50,000

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. Dori has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Dori

People whose public names include Dori, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dori in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dori. Linked forms have their own page here.

DariDoryDoriaDorisDorienDorrieDorrit

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dori by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,607
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,883
Best rank ever
#705
1960
Peak year
1961
211 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,952
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Dori

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DorianDoryRoriNoriDorcasJoriDoriaCoriKoriDorthyDortheaDorieDoraDorthaZoriDorinaDorrisStoriDoreneKaoriToriEmoriDorineDorla

Names with a curve like Dori

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dori, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dori

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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