Dotty
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1939 · 51 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,693since 1909
Dotty over time
Rank among girls' names. Dotty has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 |
| 2014 | — | |
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| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 |
| 1963 | #2,864 | 19 |
| 1962 | #2,264 | 28 |
| 1961 | #2,036 | 33 |
| 1960 | #1,725 | 43 |
| 1959 | #1,695 | 42 |
| 1958 | #1,820 | 36 |
| 1957 | #1,957 | 31 |
| 1956 | #1,637 | 42 |
| 1955 | #1,940 | 30 |
| 1954 | #1,739 | 35 |
| 1953 | #1,783 | 31 |
| 1952 | #1,820 | 30 |
| 1951 | #1,772 | 30 |
| 1950 | #1,720 | 30 |
| 1949 | #1,967 | 24 |
| 1948 | #1,358 | 46 |
| 1947 | #1,461 | 41 |
| 1946 | #1,179 | 53 |
| 1945 | #1,080 | 53 |
| 1944 | #1,140 | 47 |
| 1943 | #1,113 | 52 |
| 1942 | #1,206 | 43 |
| 1941 | #1,065 | 47 |
| 1940 | #1,046 | 47 |
| 1939 | #987 | 51 |
| 1938 | #1,596 | 23 |
| 1937 | #1,330 | 30 |
| 1936 | #1,445 | 26 |
| 1935 | #1,135 | 38 |
| 1934 | #1,236 | 33 |
| 1933 | #1,244 | 33 |
| 1932 | #1,346 | 30 |
| 1931 | #1,375 | 29 |
| 1930 | #1,289 | 34 |
| 1929 | #1,306 | 33 |
| 1928 | #1,366 | 32 |
| 1927 | #1,728 | 24 |
| 1926 | #1,830 | 22 |
| 1925 | #1,891 | 21 |
| 1924 | #2,062 | 19 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 |
| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 |
| 1918 | #1,887 | 20 |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 |
| 1916 | #2,658 | 11 |
| 1915 | #1,800 | 18 |
| 1914 | #2,434 | 9 |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #2,208 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dotty! It came in at #2,208, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1909–1910, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Dotty is popular in 1943
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#309 · 1 in 2,782
- Kentucky#470 · 1 in 5,792
- Pennsylvania#652 · 1 in 15,026
Best ever in a state: #257 in West Virginia, 1944.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #309 | 7 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Kentucky | #470 | 5 | 1 in 5,792 |
| Pennsylvania | #652 | 6 | 1 in 15,026 |
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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 Dotty
- 229 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #11,932)
- 4,487 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 609 spots in 1939 (#1,596 → #987)
- Biggest drop: 59 spots in 1940 (#987 → #1,046)
- Debuted 1909
- Peaked 1939 at #987 (51 births)
- Births halved by 1949, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1939
- Highest: 1 in 21,502 girls born in 1939 were named Dotty (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.8% of all girls named Dotty (453) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #2,208 (1909) | #2,208 |
| 1910s | 93 | #1,800 (1915) | #2,570 |
| 1920s | 191 | #1,306 (1929) | #2,287 |
| 1930s | 327 | #987 (1939) | #1,298 |
| 1940s | 453 | #1,046 (1940) | #1,262 |
| 1950s | 337 | #1,637 (1956) | #1,788 |
| 1960s | 199 | #1,725 (1960) | #3,297 |
| 1970s | 41 | #5,413 (1970) | #7,607 |
| 1980s | 7 | #8,128 (1981) | #8,128 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 5 | #17,636 (2007) | #17,636 |
| 2010s | 5 | #16,419 (2015) | #16,419 |
| 2020s | 30 | #11,932 (2025) | #13,622 |
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.
Dotty in 1943
Top girls' names in 1943
More about 1943
girls
1,395,293 girls got a published name in 1943; 1 in 26,833 of them was named Dotty, which outranked 79.3% of the 5,367 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,103Rosia53
- #1,103Sherian53
- #1,103Thomasine53
- #1,113Dotty52
- #1,113Abby52
- #1,113Aleta52
- #1,113Dorotha52
- #1,124Alpha51
- #1,124Belle51
- #1,124Carma51
Tied with 10 names at #1,113; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.