How popular is “Dorris” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dorris” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dorris” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dorris” 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
1888	6	0.000020035	6		100%
1890	5	0.000016589	5		100%
1891	5	0.000017441	5		100%
1892	5	0.000014953	5		100%
1894	7	0.000020668	7		100%
1896	17	0.000047555	17		100%
1897	20	0.000057644	14	6	40%
1898	21	0.000055052	16	5	52%
1899	15	0.000044217	15		100%
1900	19	0.000042198	19		100%
1901	23	0.00006651	23		100%
1902	36	0.000093087	36		100%
1903	17	0.000044596	17		100%
1904	23	0.000057003	23		100%
1905	28	0.00006605	28		100%
1906	31	0.000072354	31		100%
1907	35	0.000075206	30	5	71%
1908	29	0.000059347	24	5	66%
1909	51	0.000099761	44	7	73%
1910	57	0.000096494	49	8	72%
1911	63	0.000097784	58	5	84%
1912	72	0.00007287	55	17	53%
1913	99	0.000087063	77	22	56%
1914	126	0.000088961	101	25	60%
1915	180	0.00009823	143	37	59%
1916	196	0.000101323	159	37	62%
1917	232	0.00011561	187	45	61%
1918	206	0.000094882	164	42	59%
1919	245	0.0001161	203	42	66%
1920	266	0.000117562	222	44	67%
1921	300	0.000128507	254	46	69%
1922	307	0.000134111	249	58	62%
1923	346	0.000150273	290	56	68%
1924	354	0.000148639	304	50	72%
1925	353	0.000151288	302	51	71%
1926	351	0.000152881	297	54	69%
1927	315	0.000135813	273	42	73%
1928	272	0.000120304	234	38	72%
1929	262	0.000119517	229	33	75%
1930	278	0.00012504	238	40	71%
1931	221	0.000105019	178	43	61%
1932	226	0.000107044	183	43	62%
1933	178	0.000089025	137	41	54%
1934	196	0.000094375	153	43	56%
1935	184	0.000088042	146	38	59%
1936	156	0.000075087	118	38	51%
1937	176	0.000082603	123	53	40%
1938	164	0.000074122	122	42	49%
1939	157	0.000071252	113	44	44%
1940	122	0.000052982	95	27	56%
1941	121	0.000049663	94	27	55%
1942	115	0.000042097	82	33	43%
1943	141	0.000049955	106	35	50%
1944	102	0.000037917	81	21	59%
1945	82	0.000030909	59	23	44%
1946	119	0.000037242	87	32	46%
1947	111	0.000030813	87	24	57%
1948	112	0.00003244	88	24	57%
1949	85	0.000024392	66	19	55%
1950	82	0.000023406	63	19	54%
1951	74	0.000020088	60	14	62%
1952	81	0.000021327	67	14	65%
1953	68	0.000017646	55	13	62%
1954	59	0.000014821	48	11	63%
1955	56	0.000013947	49	7	75%
1956	45	0.000010914	31	14	38%
1957	54	0.000012851	42	12	56%
1958	45	0.000010886	32	13	42%
1959	53	0.000012747	47	6	77%
1960	48	0.000011556	36	12	50%
1961	32	0.000007725	25	7	56%
1962	36	0.000008921	28	8	56%
1963	34	0.00000859	28	6	65%
1964	22	0.000005659	17	5	55%
1965	24	0.00000662	16	8	33%
1966	24	0.000006905	17	7	42%
1967	15	0.000004418	10	5	33%
1968	17	0.000005032	17		100%
1969	8	0.000002302	8		100%
1970	19	0.000005268	12	7	26%
1971	18	0.000005244	11	7	22%
1972	9	0.000002864	9		100%
1974	12	0.000003947	7	5	17%
1975	8	0.00000265	8		100%
1977	11	0.000003463	6	5	9%
1980	5	0.000001452	5		100%
1981	8	0.000002313	8		100%
1984	6	0.00000172	6		100%
1987	5	0.000001387	5		100%
1988	5	0.000001353	5		100%
1989	6	0.000001561	6		100%
1990	5	0.000001265	5		100%

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