How rare is the name Dori?

5,223 people in the United States have the first name Dori, about 1 in 57,827. It ranks #3,793 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

DORI

#3,793

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,223
About
1 in 57,827
This common or more
83%
Who bears it

Of the 5,223 people named Dori, 80.5% reported their origin as White, 7.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.9% as Black. 98.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dori peaked in 1961, when 211 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19462025
Peak year
1961
Births that year
211
In 2025*
17 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,952 babies have been given the name since 1946. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dori by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,361. The largest share of babies named Dori, 39.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#7,51740
1950s#1,838858
1960s#1,3611,662
1970s#1,7571,228
1980s#3,526480
1990s#6,726258
2000s#8,953237
2010s#15,533113
2020s#13,91876
Baby boom 1946–6438.4%
Generation X 1965–8039.5%
Millennials 1981–9611.9%
Generation Z 1997–127.2%
2013 and later2.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dori is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dori has been most common in California (2.2×), New Jersey (2.1×), and Minnesota (2.1×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.76×).

2,487 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Dori

1 other first name also has 5,223 people.

#3,793 Tripp · 5,223

Either side of Dori

#3,790 Savana · 5,231#3,792 Emmie · 5,227#3,793 Tripp · 5,223#3,795 Arline · 5,222

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dori, most common first.

#796 Dora · 61,606#8,578 Dorie · 1,687#8,762 Dory · 1,636#10,355 Doria · 1,294#24,147 Dor · 401#24,891 Dore · 384#37,508 Dorri · 208#38,781 Doru · 197

Also a last name

As a last name, Dori ranks #76,963 of 156,621, with 269 people. See Dori as a last name

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