Dorrian
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dorrian has been given to 511 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 2008, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Dorrian, 2023
1 in 663,000
Dorrian 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Dorrian over time
In 2023, Dorrian went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Dorrian?
Dorrian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dorrian sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorrian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dorrians were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorrian was born before 2004 — so the typical Dorrian is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 39.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 480
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (190).
Is Dorrian 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 2008 (24)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.4% average annual change
Spellings of Dorrian
Dorrian is not the most common spelling — Darrin is, with 27.9% against Dorrian's 0.45%.
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.
Dorrian around the world
Where Dorrian 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 & Wales2008–2008#4,432in 2008
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dorrian by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Dorrian
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dorrian
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.