Dortha
About 6,811 American babies have been named Dortha since 1889, most of them around 1921. It has not appeared in the national data since 1984. About 1,200 Dorthas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 80.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dortha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,811
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 80
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 389th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1889
How old the living Dorthas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,811 babies given the name since 1889, about 1,200 are alive — 18 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1945 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 Dortha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dortha is most concentrated in Oklahoma (11.3×), Arkansas (10.2×), West Virginia (8.9×), Kentucky (5.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Dortha peaked:
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Dortha against another name
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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.