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Dorian

From Greek, marking someone of the Dorian tribe. In Poland it stays uncommon and almost entirely male: of the roughly 8,000 people who carry it, only a handful are women.

Dorian Pronunciation

Dorian is pronounced DOR-yahn (/ˈdɔrjan/).

Alive in 2025
8,071
Newborns 2025
115
National rank
#399
Also celebrates
22 January
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What Dorian means

Where Dorian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Dorian comes from Greek, from the Dorians, one of the ancient tribes whose dialect spread through the Peloponnese and Crete. The short meaning is plain: belonging to the Dorian tribe. The origin is a people.

French usage gave the name much of its modern shape, and Dorian reads as easily French as it does Greek. Its widest fame, though, arrived in English. In 1890 Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the name fastened onto a young man whose portrait grows old in his place while his own face stays unmarked.

On a Polish class register, Dorian stands among the boys with no nickname beside it, since it keeps no standard diminutive. What sits just under the surface is the tribe, that old sense of belonging to the Dorians.

When Dorian celebrates name day

Dorian appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 22 January.

Next name day
22 January
Friday in 2027
Next one in 89 days
Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Dorian

1 in 2646 men in Poland is named Dorian. 8,071 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #399 among male names.

People with the name Dorian 2019 → 2025
8,071 +1,296 since 2019
2020 6,919 +144
2021 7,250 +331
2022 7,509 +259
2023 7,729 +220
2024 7,924 +195
2025 8,071 +147

Dorian's popularity over time

115 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #239 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.

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115 newborns with the name Dorian in 2025
national rank #239 that year

Where parents choose Dorian

Dorian is most popular in Lubusz, 87% above the national average (54 boys born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+67%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+63%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Masovian, 50% and 46% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lubusz
    +87%
    1 in 920 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    +67%
    1 in 1,030 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +63%
    1 in 1,052 babies
Chosen least
  • Holy Cross
    −50%
    1 in 3,465 babies
  • Masovian
    −46%
    1 in 3,163 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    −45%
    1 in 3,152 babies

Dorian as a middle name

Dorian is a first name for 8,071 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,348, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 201st, between Ferdynand (1,352) and Ziemowit (1,347).

As a first name
8,071
As a middle name
1,348
first name 86% middle name 14%
Middle-name ranking men

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