Dottie

Where Dottie comes from

From Dot + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dottie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #679 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1929
    Dottie Dodgion born
    American musician
  3. 1932
    Dottie West born
    American country music singer and songwriter
  4. 1944
    Peak, #434
    275 babies named Dottie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #902.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dotty, and sometimes also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Dottie West · American country music singer and songwriter, 1932–1991
  • Dottie Dodgion · American musician, 1929–2021
  • Dottie Pepper · American professional golfer, born 1965
  • Dottie Rambo · American singer and songwriter, 1934–2008
  • Dottie Ardina · Filipino professional golfer, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.