Dorthy
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#11,191
up +1,326 places
2025 births
8
up +1 births
All-time births
20,338
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1927
- 695 births
- Best rank
- #234
- in 1930
- First recorded
- 1885
- #953 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1936
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 135 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1927695#248Peak
- 1930684#234
- 1926649#261
- 1928641#251
- 1929617#255
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #234 in 1930 · peak births 695 in 1927
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
79 boys · 20,338 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 Dorthy has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.