Given name
Dorene
“the golden one”·“a brooding woman”
Dorene is a variant of Doreen. Interpretations include “the golden one” and “a brooding woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dorene is a variant of Doreen. Interpretations include “the golden one” and “a brooding woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dorene through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7,925
- 0 boys · 7,925 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 296 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 296 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,555 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dorene’s family of names
Dorene has a related form in Doreen. In English usage, Dorene has a conventional equivalent in the French form Dorène.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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