Dorothea — #2061 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Dorothea

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,308 babies named Dorothea between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dorothea currently holds the #2061 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 1,110 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dorothea performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 8,518 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Dorothea shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 4,761 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Dorothea in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dorothea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34,308 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.