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Dorla

Dorla is a girl's name that peaked in 1930, when it was the 513th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1970. About 380 Dorlas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Dorla

By the numbers

Total US births
1,089
Estimated living today
380
Median age today
75
Peak year
1930
Best rank
513th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1923

How old the living Dorlas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,089 babies given the name since 1923, about 380 are alive — 35 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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 Dorla is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dorla is most concentrated in Oklahoma (6.0×), Iowa (5.4×), Illinois (3.6×), Michigan (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1930

The most popular girls’ names the year Dorla peaked:

All the names of 1930

Related names

Dorla against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.