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Dorothea
Rank in 2024
#2,072
Born in 2024
93
Peak year
1920 · #187
Origin
Ancient Greek
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 93 girls were named Dorothea, about 1 in every 17,346.
- It peaked in 1920 with 1,110 babies, ranked #187.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 34,308 girls have been named Dorothea since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Dorothea per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.8Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 16,736 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Silent: 7,251 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,666 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,727 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 649 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 345 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 640 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
See Dorothy.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Dorothea, CC BY-SA 4.0.