girls:
1k births since 1912
#4681 (18th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1912
#6704 (13th percentile)
The name Dorethea is the #6,704 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,035 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 13.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,681 (18.1% percentile) for all time with 1,035 births since 1912.
Dorethea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for girls in 1912). Birth data for Dorethea is available in 65 out of the 66 years between 1912 and 1977. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Dorethea reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #720) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorethea".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Dorethea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.9% confident that Dorethea is pronounced as daw-ruh-THEE-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-ruh-THEE-uh, at 32.1% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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