Doretha
Doretha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 502nd, in 1932.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1956198 births
- Best rank
- #502in 1932
- Since 1896
- 8,562people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,562 girls have been named Doretha in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 198 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 198 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1950s alone account for 21%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Doretha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 88 | |
| 1910s | 541 | |
| 1920s | 1,379 | |
| 1930s | 1,451 | |
| 1940s | 1,496 | |
| 1950s | 1,833 | |
| 1960s | 1,123 | |
| 1970s | 400 | |
| 1980s | 186 | |
| 1990s | 59 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Doretha was the 680th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Doretha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earthapeak 1955
- Ilenepeak 1950
- Redapeak 1955
- Madonnapeak 1954
- Doreathapeak 1928
- Phylisspeak 1951
- Ritapeak 1949
- Vernellpeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.