Doran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) From Irish Gaelic Ó Deoradháin, literally ‘little pilgrim’ or ‘little stranger’; (ii) different form of Durant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɔˈɹæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Doran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
16,704 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) From Irish Gaelic Ó Deoradháin, literally ‘little pilgrim’ or ‘little stranger’; (ii) different form of Durant.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doran counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 16,704 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Doran | 426 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Doran | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | #813 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Doran | 222 |
| AU Australia | #998 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | Doran | 160 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Doran | 152 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Doran | 2 |
| IE Ireland | #228 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Doran | 110 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Doran | 60 |
16,704 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Doran is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Irish ó Deoradhdin, diminutive of deorádh ‘exile, stranger’; first attested Martha Dorrane 1685 Black (Kirkcudbright)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, O Deoradhain ‘exile’ or ‘stranger’; sept of Down, Armagh, Laois, Wexford and Kerry
as a nameIrish family names
In English, Irish name; likely 'sullen' or surname-based
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Irish and English: from the Irish surname, in Gaelic Ó Deoradháin ‘descendant of Deoradhán’. Deoradhán is an old Irish personal name meaning ‘exile, wanderer’.
as a word
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of dorar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary Doranb. 1910USactress (1910-1995)
- Ann Doranb. 1911USAmerican actress (1911–2000)
- Lindsay Doranb. 1949USAmerican film producer and studio executive
- Frank Doranb. 1949GBBritish politician (1949-2017)
- Gregory Doranb. 1958GBBritish theatre director
- Peter Doranb. 1960USAmerican Hydrogeology researcher; academic
- Colleen Doranb. 1964USAmerican writer/artist, film conceptual artist, and cartoonist
- Matt Doranb. 1976AUAustralian actor
- Chris Doranb. 1979IEIrish singer
- Cory Doranb. 1982CACanadian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #2,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,241 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Doran mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) From Irish Gaelic Ó Deoradháin, literally ‘little pilgrim’ or ‘little stranger’; (ii) different form of Durant. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Doran?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔˈɹæn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Doran have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Doran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doran.
- How common is the name Doran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,704 people named Doran in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Doran compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Doran is the 228th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doranThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Doran” — the 228th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.