Dossie
Dossie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 761st, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191521 births
- Best rank
- #761in 1881
- Since 1881
- 1,034people given the name
The story in the numbers
568 girls have been named Dossie in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 21 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 21 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Dossie is used for both sexes: 45% of its bearers are boys (466), most of them born around 1927.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1915, its biggest year
Dossie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Dossie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zonapeak 1916
- Berdiepeak 1919
- Vertiepeak 1916
- Vellapeak 1915
- Verniepeak 1916
- Madiepeak 1915
- Clorapeak 1924
- Jettiepeak 1918
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.