Dorthy
About 20,417 American babies have been named Dorthy since 1885, most of them around 1927. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 6,300 Dorthys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dorthy boys named Dorthy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,417
- Estimated living today
- 6,300
- Median age today
- 76
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 248th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 20,338 / 79
How old the living Dorthys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,417 babies given the name since 1885, about 6,300 are alive — 31 in every hundred. Roughly 130 of them are children and 4,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 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 Dorthy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dorthy is most concentrated in Arkansas (7.9×), Mississippi (7.8×), Tennessee (3.9×), Kentucky (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular girls’ names the year Dorthy peaked:
Dorthy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Dorthy | 11 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Dorthy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.