Dorathy
Dorathy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 802nd, in 1918.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192181 births
- Best rank
- #802in 1918
- Since 1895
- 1,928people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,928 girls have been named Dorathy in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 81 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 81 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 32%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1921, its biggest year
Dorathy was the 815th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Dorathy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Erlinepeak 1927
- Concettapeak 1924
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Alverapeak 1918
- Dorothypeak 1924
- Olenepeak 1922
- Onetapeak 1922
- Dorthapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.