Dorothe
About 644 American babies have been named Dorothe since 1904, most of them around 1922. It has not appeared in the national data since 1961. About 50 Dorothes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 85.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dorothe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 644
- Estimated living today
- 50
- Median age today
- 85
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 1,089th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1904
How old the living Dorothes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 644 babies given the name since 1904, about 50 are alive — 7 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1940 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.
Notable Dorothes
- Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634–1716)Norwegian writer
People named Dorothe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dorothe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dorothe is most concentrated in Illinois (6.5×), New York (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular girls’ names the year Dorothe peaked:
Dorothe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Dorothe | 80 | 1,412th |
| France girls | Dorothe | 55 | 2,940th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Dorothe 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.