Dorraine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dorraine has been given to 354 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 1963, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Dorraine, 1974
1 in 434,000
Dorraine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dorraine?
Dorraine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1974
- 1 in 434,000
- 7 of 3,039,803 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 210,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1974
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 301,006 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dorraine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1974 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 301,006 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorraine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dorraines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorraine was born before 1962 — so the typical Dorraine is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 55.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 230
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (196).
Is Dorraine 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1963 (37)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.3% average annual change
Spellings of Dorraine
Dorraine is not the most common spelling — Lorraine is, with 81.9% against Dorraine's 0.14%.
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 Dorraine is used
Across 1910–2025, Dorraine was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,153,139 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Dorraine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dorraine around the world
Where Dorraine 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 Australia1948–1966#658in 1966
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dorraine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dorraine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dorraine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.