Dossie
The girl's name Dossie has been in the national records since 1881, with 1,034 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1972. About 140 Dossies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 79.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dossie boys named Dossie
Girls and boys called Dossie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 568 girls and 466 boys in all, and in 1933 the split was 11 to 17.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 15 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
- 1,034
- Estimated living today
- 140
- Median age today
- 79
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 1,622nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 568 / 466
How old the living Dossies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,034 babies given the name since 1881, about 140 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1946 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 Dossie is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular girls’ names the year Dossie peaked:
Related names
Dossie 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.