Dot
Dot is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 733rd, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 193546 births
- Best rank
- #733in 1888
- Since 1883
- 1,359people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,359 girls have been named Dot in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 46 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1930s alone account for 27%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dot | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 39 | |
| 1890s | 60 | |
| 1900s | 73 | |
| 1910s | 128 | |
| 1920s | 321 | |
| 1930s | 363 | |
| 1940s | 189 | |
| 1950s | 86 | |
| 1960s | 50 | |
| 2010s | 15 | |
| 2020s | 35 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Dot was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1935 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Dot
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Belvapeak 1927
- Pearliepeak 1937
- Dollypeak 1926
- Margrettpeak 1924
- Luettapeak 1928
- Pearlypeak 1924
- Nonapeak 1950
- Bettiepeak 1924
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.