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Dorinda

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Dorinda has been given to 4,801 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 202 recorded.

Babies named Dorinda, 2015

1 in 463,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorinda: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Ancient Greek

What Dorinda means

Dorinda is a modern given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

An 18th-century coinage from Dora or Dorothy, + -inda.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Dorinda (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Dorinda is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Dorinda is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dorinda is pronounced /dɔːˈɹɪn.də/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,801 girls were recorded with the name Dorinda between 1892 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 202 in 1957; its best national rank was #606 in 1944.

How common is Dorinda?

Dorinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
320,718 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dorinda 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 2015 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 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorinda was born before 1960 — so the typical Dorinda is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,881
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (1,459).

Is Dorinda 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (202)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#606
1944

Spellings of Dorinda

Dorinda is not the most common spelling — Corina is, with 25.3% against Dorinda's 7.6%.

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 Dorinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Dorinda was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 67,460 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 100,000

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

Dorinda around the world

Where Dorinda 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
    2005–2005
    #3,970
    in 2005
  • Ireland
    1981–1981
    #471
    in 1981
  • France
    1967–2011
    #5,257
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1953–1986
    #667
    in 1986

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

Notable people named Dorinda

People whose public names include Dorinda, 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.

Dorinda 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
#606
1944
Peak year
1957
202 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
4,801
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dorinda

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

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Names with a curve like Dorinda

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

RonnaGerriMartyDonitaFondaCherriePennieJoellenPamalaMaribethMaryjoJacque

Sibling names for Dorinda

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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