Meaning and history
Oscar Wilde first used Dorian in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), about a man who remains young while his portrait ages. He may have based it on the Dorians, an ancient Greek tribe.
20062006: 578 births, rank #465
2007: 542 births, rank #490
2008: 641 births, rank #441
2009: 524 births, rank #513
2010: 514 births, rank #503
20112011: 490 births, rank #522
2012: 464 births, rank #560
2013: 486 births, rank #546
2014: 516 births, rank #539
2015: 512 births, rank #560
20162016: 531 births, rank #543
2017: 527 births, rank #538
2018: 545 births, rank #521
2019: 560 births, rank #511
2020: 559 births, rank #512
20212021: 497 births, rank #567
2022: 526 births, rank #563
2023: 468 births, rank #605
2024: 554 births, rank #538
20252025: 557 births, rank #539
Dorian moved from #538 to #539 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2008, with 641 births.