Doris

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Doris: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Doris: Recorded since 1945, it reached #173 in 1955, and it stood at #2,411 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
65times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#173highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
2002	#2301
2004	#2530
2005	#4798
2006	#2320
2007	#3218
2008	#2721
2009	#5556
2010	#2235
2011	#4049
2012	#4838
2013	#2176
2014	#2203
2015	#2070
2016	#2547
2017	#2502
2018	#2340
2019	#2458
2020	#2615
2021	#2711
2022	#3533
2023	#2689
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 30 of the 43 years from 1945 to 1987.

In 1975: #455 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #496 among girls in Norway.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #296 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1987
Highest recorded position: #173 among girls in Norway, in 1955 (recorded 1945–1987).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Doris appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 341 births with the name.

Doris across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Doris's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#296 (1945)	#173 (1955)	#648 (1987)	30 of 43	341 (1945–1987)	23 (1955)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#2070 (2015)	#2411 (2024)	23 of 29	188 (1996–2024)	13 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#226 (1964)	#226 (1964)	#469 (1978)	12 of 15	64 (1964–1978)	10 (1964)

Doris by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Doris in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	59	5 of 10	12
1950sbusiest	150	10 of 10	15
1960s	103	9 of 10	11
1970s	25	5 of 10	5
1980s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1950s were its busiest decade, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Doris appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #173 in Norway in 1955.

Doris's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#648	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#496	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#577	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#587	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#440	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#578	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#354	9	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#454	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#393	7	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#297	12	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#287	12	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#284	12	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#208	18	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#243	15	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#265	12	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#304	10	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#198	18	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#179	21	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#174	23	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#173	23	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#280	10	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#234	14	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#240	13	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#272	10	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#295	8	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#223	16	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#284	9	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#323	7	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#208	19	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#296	8	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#469	4	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#455	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#349	6	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#265	10	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	4	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#253	8	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	4	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#226	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2024, ranked in 58 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #173, first reached in 1955.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in Norway in 1955.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Dorian · #322, 29y
Dorina · #2464, 10y
Dorota · #172, 51y
Dorothea · #425, 31y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Julianne · #172, 62y
Oonagh · #171, 61y
Patrik · #176, 57y
Blaithin · #169, 58y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Inger-Johanne · #173, 27y
Norvald · #173, 23y
Tatiana · #173, 75y
Hermann · #174, 58y

Doris was ranked #173 in Norway · Girls in 1955. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Doris and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Doris without appearing here.

Doris moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2176 and #5742.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4838 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2176 and #5742.
Tracey Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2176 and #5742.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2203 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Doris

Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2530 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #2682.
Blake Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3218 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #3936.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #1785.

Moved the opposite way to Doris

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 while Anita went from #162 to #59.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 while Anna went from #38 to #19.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 while Cecilie went from #359 to #23.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 while Christine went from #253 to #24.

Moved the same way as Doris

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 and Ada from #229 to #444.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 and Alma from #293 to #514.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 and Anne from #1 to #8.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 1987 in Norway · Girls, Doris went from #296 to #648 and Annie from #180 to #419.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #173 in Norway in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Doris

Doris at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Doris across 3 official records

Doris by decade in Norway · Girls

Doris appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Doris

Doris and the names beside it

Doris moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Doris

Moved the opposite way to Doris

Moved the same way as Doris

Doris at a glance

Doris across 3 official records

Doris by decade in Norway · Girls

Doris appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Doris

Doris and the names beside it

Doris moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Doris

Moved the opposite way to Doris

Moved the same way as Doris