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Doryan

Gender
Boy
Say it
DOR-ee-un
Origin
Greek

Doryan is a boys' name of Greek origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Doryan mean?

Greek: variant spelling of Dorian

A variant of Dorian, the name of an ancient Greek people and of Oscar Wilde's character Dorian Gray.

Is Doryan a girl's or a boy's name?

Doryan is a boys' name.

How popular is Doryan in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 9 boys. It first appears in the records in 1989.

Half of all the boys named Doryan in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 9 in 20072023
Doryan in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20235#12,232
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20175#12,241
20160–
20157#9,562
20140–
20137#9,650
20120–
20115#12,280
20108#8,797
20090–
20085#12,546
20079#8,169
20067#9,579
20050–
20048#8,137
20030–
20020–
20015#10,548
20008#7,409
19997#7,867
19980–
19976#8,104
19965#9,008
19950–
19940–
19936#7,631
19920–
19910–
19900–
19895#7,898

Names like Doryan

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Doryan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/doryan, updated 20 October 2026.