girls:
817 births since 1905
#4899 (14th percentile)
boys:
5.4k births since 1880
#1624 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.2k births since 1880
#3442 (56th percentile)
The name Dorsey is the #3,442 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,228 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 55.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,624 (64.6% percentile) for all time with 5,411 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,899 (14.3% percentile) for all time with 817 births since 1905.
Dorsey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1905 for girls). Birth data for Dorsey is available in 136 out of the 139 years between 1880 and 2018 (136 years for boys and 72 years for girls). 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.
The name Dorsey has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2018, 100.0% of babies named Dorsey were boys.
For boys, Dorsey reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 29.5% percentile (ranked #354) with 173 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 224 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Dorsey reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #564) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorsey".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dorsey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Dorsey is pronounced as DOR-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DOR-zee, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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