Dorris
Dorris reached its high-water mark in 1924 at number 392, and has been recorded 9,035 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1990. About 1,900 Dorrises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dorris boys named Dorris
Girls and boys called Dorris
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 7,360 girls and 1,675 boys in all, and in 1963 the split was 28 to 6.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 60 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
- 9,035
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 78
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 392nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 7,360 / 1,675
How old the living Dorrises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,035 babies given the name since 1888, about 1,900 are alive — 21 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 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.
Notable Dorriss
- Dorris Bowdon (1914–2005)American actress
People named Dorris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dorris is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dorris is most concentrated in Tennessee (8.3×), Mississippi (6.5×), Arkansas (4.6×), Missouri (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Dorris peaked:
Related names
Dorris 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.