Dorien
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dorien is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.1K
- USUnited States1 in 284K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,396 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorien 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #539 | 3,396 | 1 in 5.1K | 3.4K | Dorien | 80 |
| BE Belgium | #815 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 7 | Dorien | 81 |
| US United States | — | 1,173 | 1 in 284K | 977 | Dorien | 184 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 791K | — | Dorien | 37 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 580K | — | Dorien | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Dorien | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Dorien | 1 |
3,396 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dorien DeTombeb. 1947NLDutch sociologist
- Dorien Pessersb. 1951NLDutch columnist and jurist
- D.J.M. Petersb. 1961NLnot in their usual nameuniversity teacher at Leiden University
- Dorien Wilsonb. 1963USAmerican actor
- Dorien Rookmakerb. 1964NLDutch politician
- Dorien de Vriesb. 1965NLDutch windsurfer
- Dorien Herremansb. 1982BEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-8607-1640
- Dorien Rose Duinkerb. 1983NLDutch actress and model
- Dorien Bryantb. 1985USAmerican football player
- Dorien EmmersBEBelgian sinologist, economist, and professor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Is Dorien a male or female name?
- Dorien 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.
- In which country does Dorien have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Dorien, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorien.
- How common is the name Dorien?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,396 people named Dorien, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorien compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Dorien is the 539th most common given name of 101,916 given names 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/dorienThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dorien” — the 539th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.