Doretta
Doretta was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,597 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Doretta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 62 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doretta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doretta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,915, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
107 babies in 1953, the peak
Doretta peaked in 1953, when 107 girls were given it, #908 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,915 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,811 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,044 | 3.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,855 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,648 | 6.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,916 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,523 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,985 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,611 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,790 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | #9,446 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,486 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,418 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,856 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,280 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,500 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,239 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,798 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,631 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,090 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,291 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,801 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,660 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,490 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,227 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,962 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,038 | 18.7 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,023 | 18.5 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,761 | 22.3 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,760 | 21.4 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,630 | 23.8 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,751 | 20.8 |
| 1959 | 87 | #1,145 | 43.0 |
| 1958 | 75 | #1,228 | 37.3 |
| 1957 | 97 | #1,055 | 47.4 |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,289 | 32.4 |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,277 | 31.7 |
| 1954 | 88 | #1,046 | 45.3 |
| 1953 | 107 | #908 | 56.9 |
| 1952 | 86 | #1,014 | 46.4 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,467 | 22.8 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,631 | 19.3 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,816 | 16.4 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,552 | 21.2 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,399 | 24.8 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,683 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,803 | 16.8 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,495 | 22.6 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,496 | 22.2 |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,305 | 28.1 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,277 | 29.8 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,415 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,182 | 34.7 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,164 | 35.3 |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,087 | 40.4 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,422 | 26.0 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,334 | 28.6 |
| 1934 | 45 | #1,037 | 43.1 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,620 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,429 | 26.2 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,467 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,354 | 28.4 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,345 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,478 | 25.1 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,463 | 26.0 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,308 | 30.4 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,352 | 28.8 |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,284 | 31.2 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,359 | 28.2 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,584 | 23.3 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,631 | 21.9 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,478 | 25.0 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,432 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,459 | 25.1 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,442 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,638 | 21.1 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,819 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,757 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,321 | 30.4 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,017 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,827 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,663 | 22.7 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,154 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,318 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,175 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,576 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,524 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,233 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,482 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,467 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,450 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,405 | 27.1 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,003 | 47.1 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,543 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,484 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,320 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,124 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,246 | 31.5 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,337 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Doretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doretta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Doretta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doretta, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 52% of the 2,597 Americans ever recorded as Doretta. The median Doretta alive today is 69 years old; half are between 62 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,590 people named Doretta (1,590 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 172 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 852 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 253 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 58 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16 |
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 3,689 babies since 1880, Doretta is the most given (70% 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 Doretta
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 Doretta and names like it
- Compare Doretta and DoritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDoretta peaked in 1953.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doretta since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Doretta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Doretta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.