Dorinda
Dorinda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 606th, in 1944.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1957202 births
- Best rank
- #606in 1944
- Since 1892
- 4,801people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,801 girls have been named Dorinda in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 202 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 202 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1960s alone account for 30%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dorinda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 44 | |
| 1920s | 83 | |
| 1930s | 125 | |
| 1940s | 662 | |
| 1950s | 1,401 | |
| 1960s | 1,459 | |
| 1970s | 642 | |
| 1980s | 209 | |
| 1990s | 101 | |
| 2000s | 50 | |
| 2010s | 19 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Dorinda was the 700th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Dorinda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sherrypeak 1962
- Sheilapeak 1962
- Cathleenpeak 1958
- Gerripeak 1958
- Paulapeak 1963
- Geripeak 1958
- Sherriepeak 1962
- Pamalapeak 1958
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.