How Many People Are Named Doreen?
people named Doreen are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 9,728 people in the US has this name
Based on 46,489 babies named Doreen in Social Security records from 1900 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,574 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Combination of DORA and the name suffix een. The name was (first?) used by novelist Edna Lyall in her novel 'Doreen' (1894).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Doreen in English. Counting Doreen and these spellings together, about 36,528 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Doreen (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Doreen alive today is about 64 years old, and 75% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 60 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Doreen first appears in the records in 1900 and was given most often in 1956, to 2,574 babies. In 2025, 25 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1900 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Doreen has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #147, in 1956. In 2025 it ranked #5,131.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,131 |
| Best rank | #147 (1956) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #199 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Doreen alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Doreen were born in New York than in any other state: about 7,751 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Doreen was given 4.7 times as often in Hawaii, 3.5 times in Rhode Island and 3.4 times in Connecticut.
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