Doris Girl Name

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The name Doris is of Greek origin, and is derived from the name of a region in Greece. The table below indicates the number of times the name Doris has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Doris**
Use of the Name Doris for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
458,908	44,674	3,127	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Doris has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Doris last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1992, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Doris**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	594	9
1881	549	10
1882	462	16
1883	414	21
1884	416	23
1885	374	30
1886	407	28
1887	350	38
1888	325	55
1889	315	60
1890	268	87
1891	264	86
1892	223	134
1893	225	134
1894	191	187
1895	193	198
1896	152	308
1897	139	349
1898	125	429
1899	114	431	962	6
1900	117	559
1901	101	532	880	7
1902	93	655
1903	95	629
1904	89	736	826	9
1905	83	811
1906	83	855	951	8
1907	76	1,022	887	10
1908	70	1,156	753	13
1909	64	1,297	966	10
1910	64	1,532	944	12
1911	56	1,805	715	20
1912	48	2,652
1913	44	3,040	973	26
1914	36	4,420	968	33
1915	34	6,284	884	49
1916	32	7,166	927	47
1917	25	7,815	790	64
1918	19	9,052	822	64
1919	18	9,426	813	65
1920	14	11,892	696	86
1921	13	13,159	737	80
1922	11	13,778	791	72
1923	11	14,600	697	86
1924	9	15,799	624	106
1925	8	16,074	718	81
1926	7	16,277	601	110
1927	7	16,507	603	107
1928	7	16,560	605	103
1929	6	16,486	570	109
1930	9	15,438	535	124
1931	10	13,601	609	95
1932	10	12,903	522	123
1933	10	12,023	600	94
1934	11	11,617	608	95
1935	13	10,601	604	93
1936	16	9,210	653	80
1937	22	8,881	613	91
1938	25	8,602	655	83
1939	29	7,685	615	90
1940	31	7,775	701	74
1941	38	7,059	704	77
1942	41	7,168	886	56
1943	40	7,109
1944	42	6,323
1945	46	5,827
1946	51	5,985
1947	58	6,019
1948	64	5,542
1949	69	5,281
1950	74	5,067
1951	80	4,995
1952	83	4,958
1953	87	4,901
1954	93	4,455
1955	101	4,239
1956	109	4,081
1957	119	3,725
1958	131	3,315
1959	138	3,136
1960	147	2,900
1961	161	2,564
1962	171	2,377
1963	181	2,128
1964	190	1,940
1965	204	1,627
1966	216	1,417
1967	243	1,177
1968	263	1,025
1969	274	1,042
1970	315	863
1971	338	752
1972	362	605
1973	411	480
1974	424	459
1975	477	386
1976	506	352
1977	533	340
1978	539	332
1979	617	285
1980	617	297
1981	656	269
1982	659	270
1983	683	249
1984	689	243
1985	683	261
1986	790	213
1987	783	226
1988	810	226
1989	887	207
1990	854	230
1991	909	213
1992	884	223
Totals:		458,908		2,558

During the last 125 years, parents have used Doris as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Doris appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 113 times during the last 125 years.

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