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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Dory

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#12,248

down −2,512 places

2025 births

7

down −3 births

All-time births

968

1% of them in 2025

More common than

89%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1964
34 births
Best rank
#2,045
in 1964
First recorded
1946
#3,475 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1976
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
68 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 196434#2,045Peak
  2. 197232#2,324
  3. 196229#2,222
  4. 196028#2,208
  5. 197127#2,683

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,045 in 1964 · peak births 34 in 1964

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 11% boys■ 89% girls

124 boys · 968 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Dory has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.