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Doruk

#7,809 in 2025Boys' name

Mountaintop

Doruk has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #7,809 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Doruk, 2025

1 in 332,000

Doruk over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Doruk: meaning, origin, and history

Mountaintop

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Doruk means

Doruk means “mountaintop”.

Origin, language, and formation

Doruk is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 boys were recorded with the name Doruk between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,263 in 2016.

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 Doruk?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,809
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Doruk sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doruk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Doruks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Doruk was born before 2017 — so the typical Doruk is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
75
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Doruk 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
+1,410
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
90.9%
Peak was 2016 (11)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,263
2016

Spellings of Doruk

Doruk is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 78.8% against Doruk's 0.02%.

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.

Doruk around the world

Where Doruk 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
    2007–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2021
    #4,679
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Doruk by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,809
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,263
2016
Peak year
2016
11 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Doruk

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

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Sibling names for Doruk

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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