Dorinda
Dorinda is a girl's name that peaked in 1957, when it was the 700th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2015. About 3,800 Dorindas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dorinda
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,801
- Estimated living today
- 3,800
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 700th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1892
How old the living Dorindas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,801 babies given the name since 1892, about 3,800 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 20 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
An 18th-century coinage from Dora or Dorothy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Dorinda is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dorinda is most concentrated in New York (1.9×), Indiana (1.9×), Texas (1.9×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Dorinda peaked:
Dorinda elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Dorinda | 115 | 1,800th |
| Belgium girls | Dorinda | 6 | 1,015th |
| England and Wales girls | Dorinda | 4 | 3,970th |
| Ireland girls | Dorinda | 4 | 471st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dorinda: rank by region
In 1997, Dorinda was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Dorinda | 419 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Dorinda lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,562 women called Dorinda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Dorinda | 198 | 1.248 | 150 |
| Coruña, A | Dorinda | 515 | 0.871 | 177 |
| Pontevedra | Dorinda | 272 | 0.555 | 247 |
| Lugo | Dorinda | 92 | 0.548 | 260 |
| León | Dorinda | 69 | 0.300 | 409 |
| Asturias | Dorinda | 77 | 0.145 | 592 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Dorinda against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.