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The first name 
Doran

Doran is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Doran – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Doran in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Doran in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Doran by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Doran ranks at #6,609. That means there are 6,608 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Doran.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Doran

Doran -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Doran. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 165 Americans who bear this name. And these 165 men and boys named Doran live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Doran lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Doran and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Doran relative to its male population is Iowa. And even there, only one male in 87,939 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Doran.

Doran has 5 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.

With five letters, the name Doran is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.

Other names with 
D, o, r, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Doran – D, o, r, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Daron or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Doran

If your name is Doran and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Doran

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Doran, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Orange

Rocket

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Doran is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Doran in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Doran

Doran

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Doran

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Doran is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
O
R
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Doran

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

D
O
R
A
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Doran sounds like this: