Dorsey
Dorsey is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 341st, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916160 births
- Best rank
- #341in 1894
- Since 1880
- 6,228people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,411 boys have been named Dorsey in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 160 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 160 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 817 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dorsey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 139 | |
| 1890s | 165 | |
| 1900s | 185 | |
| 1910s | 773 | |
| 1920s | 927 | |
| 1930s | 760 | |
| 1940s | 751 | |
| 1950s | 604 | |
| 1960s | 398 | |
| 1970s | 265 | |
| 1980s | 202 | |
| 1990s | 109 | |
| 2000s | 98 | |
| 2010s | 35 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Dorsey was the 441st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Dorsey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Walterpeak 1918
- Ernestpeak 1921
- Horacepeak 1921
- Vernpeak 1920
- Albertpeak 1921
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Millardpeak 1922
- Elbertpeak 1920
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.