Dorsey
About 6,228 American babies have been named Dorsey since 1880, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 2018. About 2,200 Dorseys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dorsey boys named Dorsey
Girls and boys called Dorsey
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 817 girls and 5,411 boys in all, and in 1992 the split was 7 to 19.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 75 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,228
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 441st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 817 / 5,411
How old the living Dorseys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,228 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,200 are alive — 36 in every hundred. Roughly 50 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Dorsey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dorsey is most concentrated in West Virginia (19.9×), Georgia (7.9×), Virginia (3.5×), Missouri (3.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Dorsey peaked:
Related names
Dorsey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.