# Dorene (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dorene/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,925 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 7,925 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 8 | 7,947 |
| 1987 | 8 | 8,207 |
| 1988 | 9 | 7,883 |
| 1989 | 7 | 9,990 |
| 1990 | 9 | 8,684 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,922 |
| 1992 | 8 | 9,729 |
| 1993 | 7 | 10,910 |
| 1994 | 11 | 7,760 |
| 1996 | 9 | 9,014 |
| 1997 | 6 | 12,539 |
| 1998 | 6 | 12,904 |
| 1999 | 9 | 9,720 |
| 2002 | 7 | 12,580 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,411 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.