Dorthy
Dorthy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 234th, in 1930.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1927695 births
- Best rank
- #234in 1930
- Since 1885
- 20,329people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,329 girls have been named Dorthy in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 695 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 695 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dorthy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | |
| 1890s | 72 | |
| 1900s | 347 | |
| 1910s | 2,125 | |
| 1920s | 5,747 | |
| 1930s | 5,178 | |
| 1940s | 3,345 | |
| 1950s | 1,828 | |
| 1960s | 795 | |
| 1970s | 343 | |
| 1980s | 212 | |
| 1990s | 129 | |
| 2000s | 78 | |
| 2010s | 72 | |
| 2020s | 39 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Dorthy was the 248th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Dorthy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ardispeak 1928
- Dorispeak 1928
- Loispeak 1927
- Earlinepeak 1927
- Erlenepeak 1930
- Ethelenepeak 1925
- Dortheypeak 1932
- Mardellpeak 1932
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.