Name profile

Doreen

Combination of Dora and the name suffix een.

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#5,099

Meaning and history

Doreen is a name formed from Dora and the suffix een. It first appeared in the 19th century and was used by the novelist Edna Lyall in her 1894 novel Doreen.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 13 births, rank #8,715
2007: 27 births, rank #5,230
2008: 28 births, rank #5,142
2009: 24 births, rank #5,709
2010: 18 births, rank #6,904
20112011: 20 births, rank #6,335
2012: 18 births, rank #6,872
2013: 23 births, rank #5,644
2014: 29 births, rank #4,768
2015: 27 births, rank #4,981
20162016: 28 births, rank #4,850
2017: 24 births, rank #5,338
2018: 22 births, rank #5,619
2019: 26 births, rank #5,041
2020: 12 births, rank #8,406
20212021: 16 births, rank #6,967
2022: 16 births, rank #6,984
2023: 20 births, rank #5,960
2024: 21 births, rank #5,799
20252025: 25 births, rank #5,099

Doreen moved from #830 to #961 for girls between 1978 and 1979. Its highest annual birth count came in 1956, with 2,574 births.