Dorthea
Dorthea is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 648th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192169 births
- Best rank
- #648in 1884
- Since 1882
- 2,430people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,430 girls have been named Dorthea in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 69 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 69 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dorthea | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 | |
| 1890s | 16 | |
| 1900s | 48 | |
| 1910s | 286 | |
| 1920s | 485 | |
| 1930s | 262 | |
| 1940s | 184 | |
| 1950s | 350 | |
| 1960s | 329 | |
| 1970s | 179 | |
| 1980s | 140 | |
| 1990s | 90 | |
| 2000s | 30 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Dorthea was the 890th 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 Dorthea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Marcellepeak 1920
- Santapeak 1923
- Antoinettepeak 1924
- Willenapeak 1923
- Senorapeak 1923
- Carmelpeak 1962
- Lavenapeak 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.