Doris is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Doris is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,833 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,832 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In total, there are currently 447,054 people – children, adults and seniors – named Doris living in the United States, which is approximately 0.13 % of the entire population.
The name Doris belongs to the USA like the Constitution, baseball and the White House. Why? Well, quite simply, Doris is one of only 432 girls names that have been given in the USA in every single year since the beginning of the official name statistics and thus since 1880. However, of course, the name was not equally widespread in all 143 years – the most popular it was far back in the last century: In 1929 Doris was one of the top 10 most popular baby girl names in the entire United States - ranking #6 on our SmartGenius baby name charts.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Doris was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 1929, when the name Doris was at the height of its popularity, 16,606 newborns were named Doris by their parents - in 2022, by contrast, the name was given only 86 times and Doris occupied place 1,967 in our ranking of the most popular girls names.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Doris. Because: There are women and girls named Doris in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Doris is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Mississippi, where Doris ranks on place 24. The greatest chance of meeting Doris, however, is in North Dakota, where one in 182 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 346 women and girls and in Nevada, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 2,958 women and girls for their name before you once get Doris as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Doris 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 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Doris 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Doris, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Orange
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Doris
Doris
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
O
R
I
S
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
I
S
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. Doris sounds like this:
