girls:
34.2k births since 1880
#748 (87th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1956
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
34.2k births since 1880
#1359 (82nd percentile)
The name Dorothea is the #1,359 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,220 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #748 (86.9% percentile) for all time with 34,214 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1956.
Dorothea has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1956 for boys).
The name Dorothea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dorothea reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 70.0% percentile (ranked #174) with 958 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 1,005 births per million (ranked 64.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dorothea ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dorothea reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #638) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1956.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorothea".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Dorothea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.2% confident that Dorothea is pronounced as daw-ruh-THEE-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-ruh-THEE-uh, at 29.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AO0 R AH0 TH IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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