Dortha
Dortha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 390th, in 1921.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921295 births
- Best rank
- #390in 1921
- Since 1889
- 6,811people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,811 girls have been named Dortha in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 295 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 295 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 37%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dortha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 58 | |
| 1900s | 282 | |
| 1910s | 1,297 | |
| 1920s | 2,500 | |
| 1930s | 1,456 | |
| 1940s | 682 | |
| 1950s | 325 | |
| 1960s | 149 | |
| 1970s | 35 | |
| 1980s | 22 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Dortha was the 390th 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 Dortha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorothypeak 1924
- Dorrispeak 1924
- Erlinepeak 1927
- Marjoriepeak 1921
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Alenepeak 1920
- Florenepeak 1919
- Olenepeak 1922
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.