Dossie
Dossie was last recorded in 1972, when 6 babies were given it; 1,034 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dossie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dossie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,616, in 1960; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1917, the peak
Dossie peaked in 1917, when 32 babies were given it (19 girls, #1,862 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,589 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,616 | 5 | #4,178 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,712 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,636 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,236 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,897 | 8 | #2,973 |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,170 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,445 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #3,821 | |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,818 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,841 | |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,081 | 5 | #3,874 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,136 | 11 | #2,311 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 6 | #3,198 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 9 | #2,604 | |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,240 | 7 | #3,006 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,715 | 9 | #2,529 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,789 | 10 | #2,368 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,879 | 5 | #3,622 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,955 | 6 | #3,261 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,536 | 8 | #2,737 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,459 | 9 | #2,493 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,986 | 6 | #3,353 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,457 | 6 | #3,386 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,578 | 17 | #1,725 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,871 | 13 | #2,126 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,129 | 11 | #2,361 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,455 | 15 | #1,993 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,343 | 11 | #2,474 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,412 | 12 | #2,427 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,113 | 18 | #1,892 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,500 | 10 | #2,770 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,052 | 12 | #2,473 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,198 | 13 | #2,378 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,622 | 8 | #3,237 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,972 | 12 | #2,523 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,665 | 13 | #2,408 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,196 | 14 | #2,248 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,937 | 12 | #2,408 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,131 | 14 | #2,184 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,862 | 13 | #2,205 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,053 | 12 | #2,297 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,633 | 6 | #3,508 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,834 | 10 | #2,141 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,609 | 7 | #2,322 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,639 | 8 | #1,925 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,829 | 6 | #1,584 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,550 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,293 | 6 | #1,316 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,916 | 5 | #1,436 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,026 | 6 | #1,151 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,110 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,114 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 5 | #1,167 | |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,350 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,158 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,471 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,451 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,770 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,643 | 6 | #1,013 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,659 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,263 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,317 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 5 | #1,106 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 5 | #1,008 | |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,048 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,064 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,148 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 6 | #955 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 6 | #761 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dossie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,034 Americans recorded as Dossie, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dossie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dossie, and how old are they?
An estimated 129 Americans named Dossie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 73 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 271 people named Dossie (106 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,095 babies since 1880, Dossie is the most given (94% 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 Dossie
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 Dossie and names like it
- Compare Dossie and DosiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDossie peaked in 1917.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dossie since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Dossie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dossie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.