girls:
4.8k births since 1885
#2452 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1885
#3942 (49th percentile)
The name Dorotha is the #3,942 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,788 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 49.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,452 (57.1% percentile) for all time with 4,788 births since 1885.
Dorotha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for girls in 1885). Birth data for Dorotha is available in 77 out of the 86 years between 1885 and 1970. 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, Dorotha reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 30.3% percentile (ranked #422) with 154 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 174 births per million (ranked 20.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorotha".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Dorotha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Dorotha is pronounced as daw-ROH-thuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-ruh-thuh, at 27.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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