Dorothea
Dorothea is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 93 births. Its best rank was 174th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 930.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19201,110 births
- Best rank
- #174in 1912
- Since 1880
- 34,308people given the name
The story in the numbers
34,308 girls have been named Dorothea in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 1,110 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 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dorothea | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 347 | |
| 1890s | 807 | |
| 1900s | 1,810 | |
| 1910s | 7,750 | |
| 1920s | 8,518 | |
| 1930s | 4,180 | |
| 1940s | 3,111 | |
| 1950s | 3,008 | |
| 1960s | 2,326 | |
| 1970s | 768 | |
| 1980s | 478 | |
| 1990s | 299 | |
| 2000s | 210 | |
| 2010s | 345 | |
| 2020s | 351 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Dorothea was the 187th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Dorothea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Helenpeak 1918
- Lucillepeak 1920
- Adellpeak 1921
- Bernicepeak 1921
- Avispeak 1920
- Mildredpeak 1920
- Margarettepeak 1921
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.