Dorotha
Dorotha was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 4,788 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorotha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorotha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,326, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
197 babies in 1921, the peak
Dorotha peaked in 1921, when 197 girls were given it, #501 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #8,326 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,776 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,586 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,428 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,077 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,122 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 12 | #3,673 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,267 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,065 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,866 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,953 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,139 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,804 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,028 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,082 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,583 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 50 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 45 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 77 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 71 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 72 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 91 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 89 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1932 | 95 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 115 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 128 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 129 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1928 | 155 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1927 | 178 | #531 | 0.15 |
| 1926 | 182 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1925 | 186 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 192 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 189 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1922 | 191 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1921 | 197 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1920 | 168 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1919 | 154 | #554 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 163 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 180 | #493 | 0.17 |
| 1916 | 181 | #472 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 165 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1914 | 100 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 90 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1912 | 102 | #475 | 0.18 |
| 1911 | 64 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1910 | 64 | #514 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 46 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 47 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 43 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 31 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 24 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 28 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 21 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 13 | #981 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 12 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,304 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1885 | 6 | #952 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorotha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dorotha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dorotha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorotha, and how old are they?
An estimated 594 Americans named Dorotha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 72 and 89. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,122 people named Dorotha (1,120 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 975 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Dorotha born?
The states with the most babies named Dorotha are Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 423 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Ohio | 338 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 315 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 306 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| West Virginia | 229 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Kentucky | 221 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Arkansas | 206 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Tennessee | 202 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Missouri | 190 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 96 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Dorotha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dorotha is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 4.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dorotha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,195,278 babies since 1880, Dorotha is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 871 babies recorded by SSA was a Dorotha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dorotha
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 Dorotha and names like it
- Compare Dorotha and DorothyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDorotha peaked in 1921.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorotha since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Dorotha.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Dorotha alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with DMost given first.