Dorothe
Last seen for girls in 1961 at #5,851
- Peak · girls
- 1922 · 49 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 644since 1904
Dorothe over time
Rank among girls' names. Dorothe has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 |
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| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 |
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| 1936 | #2,521 | 11 |
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| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 |
| 1933 | #2,052 | 15 |
| 1932 | #3,047 | 9 |
| 1931 | #2,427 | 12 |
| 1930 | #2,306 | 14 |
| 1929 | #2,437 | 13 |
| 1928 | #1,961 | 19 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #1,932 | 20 |
| 1925 | #1,700 | 25 |
| 1924 | #1,206 | 43 |
| 1923 | #1,305 | 36 |
| 1922 | #1,089 | 49 |
| 1921 | #1,092 | 48 |
| 1920 | #1,312 | 35 |
| 1919 | #1,155 | 41 |
| 1918 | #1,333 | 33 |
| 1917 | #1,552 | 24 |
| 1916 | #2,028 | 16 |
| 1915 | #1,622 | 21 |
| 1914 | #1,262 | 24 |
| 1913 | #1,358 | 18 |
| 1912 | #1,844 | 10 |
| 1911 | #1,792 | 8 |
| 1910 | #1,773 | 8 |
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| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 |
| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | #1,416 | 8 |
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| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dorothe! It came in at #1,659, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1905, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Dorothe is popular in 1922
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#625 · 1 in 16,475
- Illinois#627 · 1 in 11,679
Best ever in a state: #271 in Colorado, 1924.
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| New York | #625 | 6 | 1 in 16,475 |
| Illinois | #627 | 5 | 1 in 11,679 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dorothe
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1961
- Debuted 1904
- Peaked 1922 at #1,089 (49 births)
- Births halved by 1926, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,510 girls born in 1922 were named Dorothe (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 336,416 girls born in 1961 (0.00%)
- 46.0% of all girls named Dorothe (296) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1900s | 24 | #1,416 (1906) | #1,809 |
| 1910s | 203 | #1,155 (1919) | #1,572 |
| 1920s | 296 | #1,089 (1922) | #1,760 |
| 1930s | 82 | #2,052 (1933) | #2,846 |
| 1940s | 18 | #3,503 (1940) | #4,040 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,423 (1950) | #3,423 |
| 1960s | 11 | #5,851 (1961) | #6,121 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dorothe in 1922
Top girls' names in 1922
More about 1922
girls
1,201,003 girls got a published name in 1922; 1 in 24,510 of them was named Dorothe, which outranked 81.2% of the 5,789 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,078Leo50
- #1,078Luna50
- #1,078Ressie50
- #1,089Dorothe49
- #1,089Ardelle49
- #1,089Carma49
- #1,089Dean49
- #1,103Antonetta48
- #1,103Carl48
- #1,103Carlota48
Tied with 13 names at #1,089; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.