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Dorina

#12,242 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Dorina has been given to 968 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #12,242 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Dorina, 2025

1 in 474,000

Dorina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorina: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dorina means

Dorina has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Dorina

A separate documented entry treats Dorina as a feminine form of Dorin. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Dorina is used in Albanian and Romanian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Romanian, Dorina is pronounced [doˈri.na].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 968 girls were recorded with the name Dorina between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1969; its best national rank was #1,939 in 1969.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dorina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,242
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dorina 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorina was born before 1968 — so the typical Dorina is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
787
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1960s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (227).

Is Dorina 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
+1,702
Places climbed
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
16.7%
Peak was 1969 (42)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,939
1969

Spellings of Dorina

Dorina is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 43.9% against Dorina's 0.05%.

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 Dorina is used

Across 1910–2025, Dorina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 361,063 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Dorina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dorina around the world

Where Dorina 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.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1912–2023
    #6,719
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1946–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dorina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,242
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,939
1969
Peak year
1969
42 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
968
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Dorina

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

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Sibling names for Dorina

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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