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Dorian
Pronounced /ˈdɔːɹiən/
Rank in 2024
#539
Born in 2024
553
Peak year
2008 · #441
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:5 in 2024 (#17,036)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 553 boys were named Dorian, about 1 in every 3,102.
- It peaked in 2008 with 641 babies, ranked #441.
- It first shows up in the records in 1915.
- 23,627 boys have been named Dorian since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Dorian per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 66 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 151 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,081 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,737 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,720 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,594 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,278 babies, 0.29 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Constructed like the French Doriens. From the Latin root of Dōres + -ian. Compare Ancient Greek Δωριεύς (Dōrieús, “of Doris”).
- A male given name from Ancient Greek, famously used by Oscar Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
- A female given name.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈdɔːɹiən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Dorian, CC BY-SA 4.0.