Dorothea
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#1,782
up +291 places
2025 births
113
up +20 births
All-time births
34,421
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1920
- 1,110 births
- Best rank
- #174
- in 1912
- First recorded
- 1880
- #425 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1934
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19201,110#187Peak
- 19171,076#180
- 19181,065#187
- 19211,057#196
- 19161,036#179
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #174 in 1912 · peak births 1,110 in 1920
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
6 boys · 34,421 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Dorothea has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.