Dotty
Dotty is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 988th, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 194553 births
- Best rank
- #988in 1939
- Since 1909
- 1,686people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,686 girls have been named Dotty in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1945, with 53 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1940s alone account for 27%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dotty | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 93 | |
| 1920s | 191 | |
| 1930s | 327 | |
| 1940s | 453 | |
| 1950s | 337 | |
| 1960s | 199 | |
| 1970s | 41 | |
| 1980s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 23 |
In 1945, its biggest year
Dotty was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1945 were Mary, Linda, Barbara, Patricia and Carol. See all of 1945.
Names that rose and fell with Dotty
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carylpeak 1947
- Donnispeak 1948
- Earlenepeak 1947
- Raymapeak 1947
- Georgenepeak 1947
- Nancyepeak 1944
- Maryloupeak 1942
- Earnestinepeak 1944
Other spellings in the data
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.