girls:
1.4k births since 1883
#4375 (23rd percentile)
boys:
22 births since 1916
#4564 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1883
#6370 (18th percentile)
The name Dot is the #6,370 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,373 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 17.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,375 (23.4% percentile) for all time with 1,351 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,564 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1916.
Dot first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Dot is available in 82 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (82 years for girls and 4 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 Dot has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dot reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #535) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 69 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dot ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dot reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #500) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dot".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dot. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Dot is pronounced as daht, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dawt, at 12.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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