Dorsey
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
5,411
peak year 1916
More common than
96%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1916
- 160 births
- Best rank
- #341
- in 1894
- First recorded
- 1880
- #489 that year
- Last recorded
- 2018
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1939
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 136 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1916160#441Peak
- 1920118#574
- 1917110#562
- 1918106#594
- 1919100#604
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #341 in 1894 · peak births 160 in 1916
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 87% boys■ 13% girls
5,411 boys · 817 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 Dorsey has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.