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How popular is “Dorian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dorian” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dorian” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dorian” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dorian” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dorian” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dorian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dorian” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1919 15 0.000007108 7 8 -7%
1920 13 0.000005745 6 7 -8%
1921 15 0.000006425 6 9 -20%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 6 11 -29%
1925 10 0.000004286 5 5 0%
1926 12 0.000005227 7 5 17%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 14 0.000006386 7 7 0%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 8 0.000003852 8 -100%
1935 12 0.000005742 5 7 -17%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 12 0.000005632 5 7 -17%
1938 14 0.000006327 5 9 -29%
1939 18 0.000008169 7 11 -22%
1940 16 0.000006948 6 10 -25%
1941 19 0.000007798 5 14 -47%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 15 0.000005576 5 10 -33%
1945 49 0.00001847 17 32 -31%
1946 76 0.000023785 15 61 -61%
1947 86 0.000023873 30 56 -30%
1948 85 0.00002462 36 49 -15%
1949 93 0.000026688 35 58 -25%
1950 79 0.00002255 37 42 -6%
1951 79 0.000021446 35 44 -11%
1952 72 0.000018957 37 35 3%
1953 118 0.00003062 56 62 -5%
1954 104 0.000026126 49 55 -6%
1955 119 0.000029638 50 69 -16%
1956 96 0.000023284 42 54 -13%
1957 128 0.000030461 63 65 -2%
1958 115 0.000027819 62 53 8%
1959 133 0.000031987 80 53 20%
1960 143 0.000034426 88 55 23%
1961 127 0.000030659 61 66 -4%
1962 155 0.00003841 85 70 10%
1963 121 0.000030569 54 67 -11%
1964 117 0.000030096 50 67 -15%
1965 92 0.000025376 34 58 -26%
1966 118 0.00003395 31 87 -47%
1967 111 0.000032696 25 86 -55%
1968 126 0.000037296 34 92 -46%
1969 170 0.000048916 35 135 -59%
1970 189 0.000052405 43 146 -54%
1971 227 0.000066135 40 187 -65%
1972 242 0.000076997 36 206 -70%
1973 392 0.000129935 99 293 -49%
1974 339 0.000111513 110 229 -35%
1975 292 0.000096708 69 223 -53%
1976 274 0.000090301 69 205 -50%
1977 307 0.000096647 83 224 -46%
1978 271 0.000085385 89 182 -34%
1979 296 0.000088969 77 219 -48%
1980 259 0.000075192 94 165 -27%
1981 244 0.000070533 79 165 -35%
1982 324 0.000092361 103 221 -36%
1983 340 0.000098171 125 215 -26%
1984 311 0.000089144 109 202 -30%
1985 301 0.000084335 76 225 -50%
1986 269 0.000075624 82 187 -39%
1987 349 0.000096793 97 252 -44%
1988 364 0.00009851 74 290 -59%
1989 397 0.000103266 63 334 -68%
1990 420 0.000106262 62 358 -70%
1991 436 0.000111931 72 364 -67%
1992 456 0.000118711 85 371 -63%
1993 455 0.000120681 93 362 -59%
1994 462 0.000124272 92 370 -60%
1995 500 0.000136532 91 409 -64%
1996 478 0.00013106 83 395 -65%
1997 473 0.000130456 81 392 -66%
1998 524 0.000142461 103 421 -61%
1999 517 0.000139962 97 420 -62%
2000 703 0.000185984 64 639 -82%
2001 678 0.000181119 75 603 -78%
2002 650 0.000173876 64 586 -80%
2003 620 0.000163058 60 560 -81%
2004 661 0.000172995 66 595 -80%
2005 672 0.000174779 47 625 -86%
2006 622 0.000157222 44 578 -86%
2007 585 0.000146335 43 542 -85%
2008 684 0.000174016 43 641 -87%
2009 554 0.00014502 30 524 -89%
2010 544 0.000147197 30 514 -89%
2011 511 0.000139702 21 490 -92%
2012 486 0.000132882 22 464 -91%
2013 511 0.000140166 25 486 -90%
2014 535 0.000144346 19 516 -93%
2015 535 0.000144559 23 512 -91%
2016 555 0.00015128 24 531 -91%
2017 539 0.000150719 12 527 -96%
2018 565 0.000160699 20 545 -93%
2019 575 0.000165662 15 560 -95%
2020 576 0.000172425 17 559 -94%
2021 515 0.000152009 18 497 -93%
2022 541 0.000159911 15 526 -94%
2023 479 0.000144661 13 466 -95%
2024 558 0.000167643 5 553 -98%

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