Dorethea
Dorethea is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195632 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 1,035people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,035 girls have been named Dorethea in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 32 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 32 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1950s alone account for 22%.
By decade
In 1956, its biggest year
Dorethea was outside the top 1,000 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 Dorethea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorinepeak 1932
- Bernitapeak 1954
- Doreathapeak 1928
- Lovettapeak 1928
- Dorethapeak 1956
- Ritapeak 1949
- Glenapeak 1950
- Nadenepeak 1930
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.