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Dorrie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Dorothy or Dorothea

Dorrie has been given to 889 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1959, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Dorrie, 2005

1 in 769,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorrie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Dorothy or Dorothea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dorrie means

Dorrie is a diminutive of Dorothy or Dorothea.

Origin, language, and formation

Dorrie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorothy and Dorothea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 889 girls were recorded with the name Dorrie between 1917 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1959; its best national rank was #1,397 in 1959.

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 Dorrie?

Dorrie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dorrie 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorrie was born before 1961 — so the typical Dorrie is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
786
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1950s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (297).

Is Dorrie 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (59)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,397
1959

Spellings of Dorrie

Dorrie is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 47.8% against Dorrie's 0.09%.

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 Dorrie is used

Across 1910–2025, Dorrie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 583,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Dorrie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dorrie 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,397
1959
Peak year
1959
59 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
889
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dorrie

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

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Sibling names for Dorrie

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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