Doretta
Doretta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 909th, in 1953.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1953107 births
- Best rank
- #909in 1953
- Since 1888
- 2,597people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,597 girls have been named Doretta in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1953, with 107 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 1950, and the 1950s alone account for 29%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Doretta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 53 | |
| 1900s | 72 | |
| 1910s | 186 | |
| 1920s | 321 | |
| 1930s | 330 | |
| 1940s | 322 | |
| 1950s | 741 | |
| 1960s | 347 | |
| 1970s | 129 | |
| 1980s | 46 | |
| 1990s | 24 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 16 |
In 1953, its biggest year
Doretta was the 909th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1953 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1953.
Names that rose and fell with Doretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nitapeak 1956
- Robbiepeak 1957
- Kathernpeak 1954
- Vonniepeak 1959
- Alfredapeak 1958
- Annpeak 1957
- Lorettapeak 1938
- Phillispeak 1949
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.