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Doreatha

About 1,238 American babies have been named Doreatha since 1905, most of them around 1928. It has not appeared in the national data since 1988. About 550 Doreathas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Doreatha

By the numbers

Total US births
1,238
Estimated living today
550
Median age today
70
Peak year
1928
Best rank
1,271st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1905

How old the living Doreathas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,238 babies given the name since 1905, about 550 are alive — 45 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Doreatha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Doreatha is most concentrated in North Carolina (15.4×), South Carolina (6.8×), Virginia (4.2×), Florida (3.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1928

The most popular girls’ names the year Doreatha peaked:

All the names of 1928

Related names

Doreatha against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.