Doreen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicization of the Irish name }Dorean
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɔˈɹin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Doreen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 28th most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Doreen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, 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)
Anglicization of the Irish name }Dorean. It may also be a derivative of Dora with the addition of the productive suffix -een, representing an Irish pet form. Variants: Dorene, Dorine.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doreen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Doreen | 30 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Doreen | 34 |
| US United States | #669 | 40,567 | 1 in 8.2K | 41K | Doreen | 482 |
| DE Germany | #348 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 2 | Doreen | 192 |
| GB United Kingdom | #319 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 3 | Doreen | 207 |
| MD Moldova | — | 5,583as Dorin | 1 in 603 | 5.6K | — | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | #28 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Doreen | 17 |
| GY Guyana | — | 445 | 1 in 1.7K | 445 | — | 4 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Doreen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: derivative of DORA , with the addition of the productive suffix - een (in origin an Irish diminutive). The name came into use at the beginning of the 20th century, when there was a particular vogue for such names. See also DOREAN . Variants: Dorene, Dorine .
as a word
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)
- Mollie Phillipsb. 1907GBnot in their usual nameBritish female skater (1907–1994)
- Doreen Langb. 1915NZNew Zealand-born American character actress (1915–1999)
- Doreen Valienteb. 1922GBEnglish writer (1922–1999)
- Doreen Carwithenb. 1922GBBritish composer of classical and film music (1922–2003)
- Doreen Mantleb. 1930ZASouth African-born English actress
- Doreen Simmonsb. 1932GBEnglish sumo commentator (1932-2018)
- Doreen Masseyb. 1944GBBritish social scientist and geographer
- Doreen Virtueb. 1958USAmerican writer
- Doreen Jacobib. 1974DEGerman actress
- Doreen Dietelb. 1974DEGerman actress (born 1974)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41K | #1,034 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 445 | #218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52 | #1,034 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1987 | 3 | #582 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2021 | 2 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 2 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2017 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2013 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Doreen come from?
- Anglicization of the Irish name }Dorean. It may also be a derivative of Dora with the addition of the productive suffix -een, representing an Irish pet form. Variants: Dorene, Dorine. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How common is the name Doreen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,567 people named Doreen in 2020, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Doreen compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Doreen is the 28th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Doreen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anglicization of the Irish name }Dorean.
- How do you pronounce Doreen?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔˈɹin/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Doreen a male or female name?
- Doreen is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Doreen?
- In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dora and Teodora are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Dee and Dolly.
- In which country does Doreen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 203 thousand people named Doreen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doreen.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doreenThe 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, “Doreen” — the 28th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.