How Many People Are Named Dorris?
people named Dorris are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 181,897 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,035 babies named Dorris in Social Security records from 1888 to 1990, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
354 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of DORIS.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Dorris in English. Counting Dorris and these spellings together, about 128,961 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Dorris, 82.3% were girls and 17.7% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Dorris fell from 94.2% in the 1900s to 77.7% in the 1960s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Dorris alive today is about 77 years old, and 91% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 69 and 85 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Dorris first appears in the records in 1888 and was given most often in 1924, to 354 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1990.
Babies given the name each year, 1888 to 1990
🏆 Rank History
Dorris has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #391, in 1923. Among boys, its best rank was #836, in 1937.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #391 (1923) | #836 (1937) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #418 in the 1920s | #1,018 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Dorris alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dorris were born in Tennessee than in any other state: about 257 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dorris was given 7.1 times as often in Tennessee, 4.1 times in Mississippi and 3.3 times in Texas.
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