Dorsey — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dorsey

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,411 babies named Dorsey between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dorsey currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 160 babies received it in a single year. Dorsey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 817 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dorsey performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 927 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Dorsey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 465 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Dorsey in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dorsey 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 5,411 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.