Dorian
Dorian is a boy's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 441st most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 539th. About 27,000 Dorians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dorian boys named Dorian
Girls and boys called Dorian
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 4,541 girls and 24,187 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 7 to 557.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 81 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28,728
- Estimated living today
- 27,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 441st
- Rank in 2025
- 539th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 4,541 / 24,187
How old the living Dorians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 28,728 babies given the name since 1915, about 27,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 9,800 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Constructed like the French Doriens. From the Latin root of Dōres + -ian. Compare Ancient Greek Δωριεύς.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dorians
- Dorian Babunski (born 1996)Macedonian association football player
- Dorian Yates (born 1962)Six-Times Mr. Olympia
- Dorian Gregory (born 1971)American actor
- Dorian van Rijsselberghe (born 1988)Dutch windsurfer
- Dorian Harewood (born 1950)American actor
- Dorian Gray (1928–2011)Italian actress
- Dorian Finney-Smith (born 1993)American basketball player
- Dorian Godon (born 1996)French road cyclist
People named Dorian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dorian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dorian is most concentrated in Florida (1.9×), Maryland (1.8×), Arizona (1.7×), Nevada (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Dorian peaked:
Dorian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Dorian | 33,945 | 44th |
| Poland boys | Dorian | 6,267 birth registrations | 83rd |
| Belgium boys | Dorian | 2,395 | 52nd |
| England and Wales boys | Dorian | 967 | 549th |
| Switzerland boys | Dorian +1 spelling | 940 | 176th |
| Italy boys | Dorian | 691 | — |
| Ireland boys | Dorian | 120 | 322nd |
| Scotland boys | Dorian | 62 | 401st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Dorian | 10 | 352nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dorian: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Dorian | 383 | 0.031% | 235th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Dorián | 4 | 0.000% | 1,463rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Dorian | 519 | 0.119% | 54th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Dorián | 1 | 0.000% | 1,073rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Dorian | 32 | 0.049% | 79th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Dorian | 1 | 0.027% | 18th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Dorian is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.16% of children were given it – 107 of them.
Dorian: rank by region
In 2025, Dorian was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Dorian | 714 | 7 |
In 2025, Dorian was given 2 times or more in 15 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Dorian | 111 | 12 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Dorian | 69 | 15 |
| Lubelskie | Dorian | 97 | 5 |
| Lubuskie | Dorian | 86 | 5 |
| Łódzkie | Dorian | 107 | 8 |
| Małopolskie | Dorian | 167 | 5 |
| Mazowieckie | Dorian | 164 | 10 |
| Opolskie | Dorian | 108 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Dorian | 135 | 3 |
| Pomorskie | Dorian | 101 | 13 |
| Śląskie | Dorian | 118 | 12 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Dorian | 100 | 2 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Dorian | 136 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Dorian | 119 | 13 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Dorian | 110 | 6 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Dorian appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (142nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Dorian by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 13 | 413th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Dorian among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Dorian | 27 | 51 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Dorian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 861 men called Dorian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Dorian | 95 | 0.163 | 593 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Dorian | 82 | 0.154 | 635 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Dorian | 19 | 0.061 | 1,032 |
| Huesca | Dorian | 6 | 0.051 | 1,185 |
| Tarragona | Dorian | 22 | 0.050 | 1,231 |
| Granada | Dorian | 23 | 0.049 | 1,020 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Dorian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.