Dorothey
Dorothey was last recorded in 1968, when 5 babies were given it; 1,142 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dorothey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dorothey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,295, in 1968; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1925, the peak
Dorothey peaked in 1925, when 46 girls were given it, #1,140 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 | #7,295 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,979 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,630 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,874 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,341 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,188 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,961 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,480 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,368 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,768 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 14 | #2,954 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,262 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,805 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,766 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,732 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,099 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,734 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,837 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,046 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,473 | 22.9 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,504 | 22.2 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,969 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,127 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,521 | 22.8 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,419 | 25.4 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,424 | 25.4 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,302 | 29.8 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,335 | 28.6 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,527 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,412 | 26.8 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,273 | 30.9 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,515 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 39 | #1,200 | 34.6 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,566 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,256 | 32.1 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,368 | 29.4 |
| 1926 | 44 | #1,152 | 37.1 |
| 1925 | 46 | #1,140 | 37.8 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,360 | 28.8 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,286 | 30.7 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,235 | 33.3 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,584 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,450 | 25.9 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,457 | 25.7 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,460 | 25.1 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,663 | 20.3 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,495 | 23.9 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,985 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,833 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,911 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,203 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dorothey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dorothey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dorothey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dorothey, and how old are they?
An estimated 292 Americans named Dorothey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 74 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 178 people named Dorothey (178 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 58% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Dorothey?
Dorothey is a less common spelling of Dorothy: SSA has recorded 1,142 Dorothey and 1,115,908 Dorothy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,182,606 babies since 1880, Dorothey is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 871 babies recorded by SSA was a Dorothey (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 Dorothey
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 Dorothey and names like it
- Compare Dorothey and DorothyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDorothey peaked in 1925.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dorothey since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Dorothey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dorothey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.