girls:
391 births since 1900
#5325 (7th percentile)
boys:
254 births since 1915
#4332 (5th percentile)
overall:
645 births since 1900
#7094 (8th percentile)
The name Dorsie is the #7,094 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 645 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 8.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,325 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 391 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,332 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 254 births since 1915.
Dorsie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Dorsie is available in 45 out of the 65 years between 1900 and 1964 (42 years for girls and 32 years for boys). 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 Dorsie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (60.6% of all recorded births). In 1964, 100.0% of babies named Dorsie were girls.
For girls, Dorsie reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #599) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 19 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
For boys, Dorsie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #526) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 14 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1953.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorsie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dorsie is pronounced as DOR-see, which has 2 syllables.
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