Dodie
Dodie was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Dodie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 54 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dodie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dodie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dodie is “a diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dodie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,801, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
89 babies in 1971, the peak
Dodie peaked in 1971, when 89 girls were given it, #1,244 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #11,801 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,104 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,851 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,287 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,337 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,567 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,274 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,123 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,196 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,714 | 12.3 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 24 | #2,989 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,224 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,719 | 35.7 |
| 1972 | 70 | #1,406 | 46.0 |
| 1971 | 89 | #1,244 | 53.5 |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,334 | 45.2 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,602 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,561 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,131 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,104 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,601 | 27.8 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,613 | 26.4 |
| 1963 | 79 | #1,234 | 41.0 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,544 | 27.0 |
| 1961 | 69 | #1,343 | 34.2 |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,543 | 25.7 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,677 | 21.3 |
| 1958 | 46 | #1,579 | 22.9 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,877 | 16.6 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,850 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,351 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,536 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,966 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,594 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,547 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,803 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,806 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,191 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,934 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,096 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,189 | 6.8 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,234 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,069 | 5.0 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,403 | 4.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,369 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,166 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dodie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dodie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dodie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dodie, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,258 Americans ever recorded as Dodie. The median Dodie alive today is 60 years old; half are between 54 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,105 people named Dodie (1,074 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 465 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 565 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 43 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,116 babies since 1880, Dodie is the most given (59% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dodie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dodie and names like it
- Compare Dodie and DodiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDodie peaked in 1971.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dodie since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Dodie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dodie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.