girls:
20.3k births since 1885
#1023 (82nd percentile)
boys:
79 births since 1923
#4507 (2nd percentile)
overall:
20.4k births since 1885
#1795 (77th percentile)
The name Dorthy is the #1,795 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,401 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 76.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,023 (82.1% percentile) for all time with 20,322 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,507 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 79 births since 1923.
Dorthy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1923 for boys). Birth data for Dorthy is available in 133 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (133 years for girls and 11 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 Dorthy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dorthy reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 61.1% percentile (ranked #231) with 586 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 586 births per million (ranked 61.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dorthy ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dorthy reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #525) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorthy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dorthy is pronounced as DOR-thee, which has 2 syllables.
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