Dot
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#9,017
up +2,358 places
2025 births
11
up +3 births
All-time births
1,370
1% of them in 2025
More common than
92%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1935
- 46 births
- Best rank
- #733
- in 1888
- First recorded
- 1883
- #847 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1933
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 84 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 193546#1,020Peak
- 192845#1,137
- 193145#1,048
- 193345#1,039
- 193441#1,104
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #733 in 1888 · peak births 46 in 1935
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 2% boys■ 98% girls
22 boys · 1,370 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 Dot has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.