Dorotha
Dorotha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 472nd, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921197 births
- Best rank
- #472in 1916
- Since 1885
- 4,788people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,788 girls have been named Dorotha in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 197 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 197 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 37%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dorotha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 38 | |
| 1900s | 273 | |
| 1910s | 1,263 | |
| 1920s | 1,767 | |
| 1930s | 832 | |
| 1940s | 354 | |
| 1950s | 166 | |
| 1960s | 84 | |
| 1970s | 5 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Dorotha was the 501st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Dorotha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mozellpeak 1925
- Alverapeak 1918
- Berniecepeak 1918
- Antonettapeak 1915
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Orenepeak 1919
- Concettapeak 1924
- Erlinepeak 1927
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.