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How popular is “Doris” in the USA?

Number of people named “Doris” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Doris” 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 “Doris” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Doris” by birth year

This chart shows how “Doris” 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
1880 9 0.000044669 9 100%
1881 10 0.000051897 10 100%
1882 16 0.000072224 16 100%
1883 21 0.000096798 21 100%
1884 23 0.000094471 23 100%
1885 30 0.000124557 30 100%
1886 28 0.000109668 28 100%
1887 38 0.000153602 38 100%
1888 55 0.000183655 55 100%
1889 60 0.000207651 60 100%
1890 87 0.000288652 87 100%
1891 86 0.000299993 86 100%
1892 139 0.000415702 134 5 93%
1893 134 0.000412025 134 100%
1894 187 0.000552127 187 100%
1895 198 0.00056407 198 100%
1896 312 0.000872766 307 5 97%
1897 354 0.001020299 349 5 97%
1898 429 0.001124641 429 100%
1899 437 0.001288196 431 6 97%
1900 562 0.001248173 557 5 98%
1901 537 0.001552867 530 7 97%
1902 656 0.001696261 656 100%
1903 634 0.001663169 629 5 98%
1904 745 0.001846413 736 9 98%
1905 812 0.001915447 812 100%
1906 864 0.002016567 856 8 98%
1907 1033 0.002219644 1023 10 98%
1908 1168 0.002390264 1155 13 98%
1909 1308 0.002558565 1298 10 98%
1910 1548 0.002620571 1536 12 98%
1911 1832 0.002843493 1812 20 98%
1912 2677 0.002709344 2657 20 99%
1913 3075 0.002704224 3049 26 98%
1914 4462 0.003150365 4429 33 99%
1915 6341 0.00346044 6292 49 98%
1916 7208 0.003726187 7161 47 99%
1917 7883 0.003928242 7819 64 98%
1918 9125 0.004202917 9061 64 99%
1919 9496 0.004499951 9433 63 99%
1920 11978 0.005293809 11892 86 99%
1921 13233 0.005668439 13152 81 99%
1922 13871 0.006059438 13798 73 99%
1923 14697 0.006383114 14610 87 99%
1924 15890 0.006671957 15786 104 99%
1925 16159 0.006925379 16075 84 99%
1926 16402 0.007144024 16295 107 99%
1927 16619 0.007165345 16512 107 99%
1928 16678 0.007376584 16574 104 99%
1929 16607 0.00757563 16498 109 99%
1930 15588 0.007011238 15464 124 98%
1931 13724 0.006521611 13629 95 99%
1932 13033 0.006173 12910 123 98%
1933 12121 0.006062176 12025 96 98%
1934 11720 0.005643254 11627 93 98%
1935 10698 0.005118905 10604 94 98%
1936 9307 0.004479736 9227 80 98%
1937 8973 0.004211351 8882 91 98%
1938 8685 0.003925292 8602 83 98%
1939 7777 0.003529478 7687 90 98%
1940 7841 0.003405155 7767 74 98%
1941 7159 0.002938322 7081 78 98%
1942 7233 0.002647687 7176 57 98%
1943 7167 0.002539185 7127 40 99%
1944 6349 0.002360154 6324 25 99%
1945 5854 0.002206634 5820 34 99%
1946 6027 0.001886204 5987 40 99%
1947 6063 0.001683081 6029 34 99%
1948 5574 0.001614474 5547 27 99%
1949 5315 0.001525206 5284 31 99%
1950 5078 0.001449466 5053 25 99%
1951 5055 0.001372247 5025 30 99%
1952 4970 0.001308582 4950 20 99%
1953 4922 0.001277233 4900 22 99%
1954 4473 0.001123669 4457 16 99%
1955 4258 0.001060502 4239 19 99%
1956 4120 0.000999263 4099 21 99%
1957 3738 0.000889546 3721 17 99%
1958 3339 0.000807711 3319 20 99%
1959 3155 0.00075878 3134 21 99%
1960 2921 0.000703209 2899 22 98%
1961 2595 0.000626463 2578 17 99%
1962 2388 0.000591767 2379 9 99%
1963 2135 0.000539387 2126 9 99%
1964 1940 0.000499022 1931 9 99%
1965 1633 0.000450427 1625 8 99%
1966 1430 0.000411433 1417 13 98%
1967 1187 0.000349642 1179 8 99%
1968 1034 0.000306061 1021 13 97%
1969 1050 0.00030213 1037 13 98%
1970 868 0.000240676 863 5 99%
1971 761 0.000221714 752 9 98%
1972 611 0.000194401 605 6 98%
1973 482 0.000159767 477 5 98%
1974 462 0.000151974 456 6 97%
1975 383 0.000126847 383 100%
1976 352 0.000116007 352 100%
1977 343 0.000107981 338 5 97%
1978 336 0.000105864 330 6 96%
1979 286 0.000085963 286 100%
1980 306 0.000088837 299 7 95%
1981 271 0.000078338 271 100%
1982 271 0.000077253 271 100%
1983 253 0.000073051 248 5 96%
1984 245 0.000070226 245 100%
1985 264 0.000073968 264 100%
1986 217 0.000061005 212 5 95%
1987 234 0.000064899 227 7 94%
1988 225 0.000060892 225 100%
1989 213 0.000055405 207 6 94%
1990 230 0.000058191 230 100%
1991 214 0.000054938 214 100%
1992 224 0.000058314 224 100%
1993 179 0.000047477 179 100%
1994 170 0.000045728 170 100%
1995 145 0.000039594 145 100%
1996 128 0.000035095 128 100%
1997 118 0.000032545 118 100%
1998 121 0.000032896 121 100%
1999 116 0.000031403 116 100%
2000 105 0.000027778 105 100%
2001 108 0.000028851 108 100%
2002 91 0.000024343 91 100%
2003 90 0.00002367 90 100%
2004 102 0.000026695 102 100%
2005 92 0.000023928 92 100%
2006 90 0.000022749 90 100%
2007 93 0.000023263 93 100%
2008 94 0.000023915 94 100%
2009 81 0.000021203 81 100%
2010 67 0.000018129 67 100%
2011 75 0.000020504 75 100%
2012 102 0.000027889 102 100%
2013 82 0.000022492 82 100%
2014 124 0.000033456 124 100%
2015 85 0.000022967 85 100%
2016 118 0.000032164 118 100%
2017 92 0.000025726 92 100%
2018 111 0.000031571 111 100%
2019 118 0.000033997 118 100%
2020 74 0.000022152 74 100%
2021 74 0.000021842 74 100%
2022 86 0.00002542 86 100%
2023 76 0.000022952 76 100%
2024 86 0.000025837 86 100%

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