Dot
Dot was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,015 among girls’ names; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dot by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dot mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dot is “a diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dot?
#9,015 among girls’ names, 2025
Dot entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,015 in 2025.
46 babies in 1935, the peak
Dot peaked in 1935, when 46 girls were given it, #1,020 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,015 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,370 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,812 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,878 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,881 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,491 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,265 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,793 | 5.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,203 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,466 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 11 | #4,070 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,078 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,251 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,014 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,133 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,527 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,464 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,310 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,898 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,079 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,993 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,420 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,446 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,518 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,800 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,043 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,892 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,927 | 15.1 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,367 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,063 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,453 | 24.0 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,529 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,381 | 26.4 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,274 | 29.9 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,287 | 30.1 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,514 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 46 | #1,020 | 43.9 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,104 | 39.3 |
| 1933 | 45 | #1,039 | 44.6 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,179 | 34.7 |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,048 | 42.3 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,376 | 27.5 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,316 | 29.6 |
| 1928 | 45 | #1,137 | 39.0 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,308 | 31.0 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,248 | 32.9 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,618 | 22.2 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,651 | 21.6 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,400 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,913 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,521 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,520 | 24.2 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,762 | 19.5 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,979 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,791 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,969 | 16.3 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,289 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,157 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,064 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,720 | 10.8 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,551 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,024 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,576 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,418 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,601 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,017 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,525 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,862 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,857 | 18.9 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,084 | 41.8 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,183 | 36.7 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,285 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,291 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,459 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,218 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,544 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,033 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 10 | #974 | 47.1 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,126 | 37.7 |
| 1889 | 10 | #853 | 56.1 |
| 1888 | 13 | #733 | 72.8 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,186 | 34.3 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,149 | 34.6 |
| 1883 | 6 | #847 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dot a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,392 Americans recorded as Dot, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dot: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dot, and how old are they?
An estimated 358 Americans named Dot and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 65 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,224 people named Dot (1,166 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dot rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 1,442 babies since 1880, Dot is the most given (97% 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 Dot
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 Dot and names like it
- Compare Dot and DottBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDot peaked in 1935.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dot since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Dot.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dot alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.