Dorcus Popularity by Year

Follow Dorcus across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Dorcus birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1983	Girls	5	#10,275	Down 1,265 places
1979	Girls	6	#9,010	Up 740 places
1978	Girls	5	#9,750	Down 3,133 places
1972	Boys	5	#4,986	—
1969	Girls	6	#6,617	Down 575 places
1967	Girls	6	#6,042	Down 1,548 places
1965	Girls	9	#4,494	Down 139 places
1964	Girls	10	#4,355	Up 1,536 places
1963	Girls	6	#5,891	Up 687 places
1962	Girls	5	#6,578	Down 2,658 places
1960	Girls	11	#3,920	Up 2,325 places
1959	Girls	5	#6,245	Down 142 places
1958	Girls	5	#6,103	Down 17 places
1957	Girls	5	#6,086	Down 134 places
1956	Girls	5	#5,952	Down 2,174 places
1955	Girls	10	#3,778	Up 1,975 places
1954	Girls	5	#5,753	Down 80 places
1953	Girls	5	#5,673	Down 110 places
1952	Girls	5	#5,563	Down 1,178 places
1951	Girls	7	#4,385	Up 916 places
1950	Girls	5	#5,301	Down 57 places
1949	Girls	5	#5,244	Down 593 places
1948	Girls	6	#4,651	Down 306 places
1947	Girls	7	#4,345	Down 669 places
1945	Girls	7	#3,676	Up 946 places
1942	Girls	5	#4,622	Down 372 places
1939	Girls	5	#4,250	Down 1,069 places
1938	Girls	8	#3,181	Down 241 places
1937	Girls	9	#2,940	Up 761 places
1936	Girls	6	#3,701	Up 503 places
1935	Girls	5	#4,204	Down 1,095 places
1933	Girls	8	#3,109	Up 1,302 places
1932	Girls	5	#4,411	Down 1,830 places
1931	Girls	11	#2,581	Up 1,969 places
1930	Girls	5	#4,550	Down 497 places
1929	Girls	6	#4,053	Up 672 places
1928	Girls	5	#4,725	Up 80 places
1927	Girls	5	#4,805	Down 932 places
1926	Girls	7	#3,873	Up 155 places
1925	Girls	7	#4,028	Down 373 places
1922	Girls	8	#3,655	Down 756 places
1920	Girls	11	#2,899	Up 1,915 places
1919	Girls	5	#4,814	Down 5 places
1918	Girls	5	#4,809	Down 215 places
1917	Girls	5	#4,594	—