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Doreen
Say it: dor-EEN
Meaning
Uncertain. Possibly from Irish Doireann, or a combination of Dora with the Irish-style ending -een.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Became fashionable after Edna Lyall's novel Doreen (1894) and peaked in the 1920s to 1950s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1950s
In the United States
- 46,386 babies given this name since 1900
- At its height in 1956, about 1 in 780 girls
- 12 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Dorene, Dorine
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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