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How popular is “Dorethea” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dorethea” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dorethea” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dorethea” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dorethea” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dorethea” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dorethea” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dorethea” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 9 0.000009109 9 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 100%
1919 19 0.000009004 19 100%
1920 23 0.000010165 23 100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 100%
1922 16 0.000006989 16 100%
1923 20 0.000008686 20 100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 100%
1925 22 0.000009429 22 100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 100%
1927 20 0.000008623 20 100%
1928 23 0.000010173 23 100%
1929 14 0.000006386 14 100%
1930 22 0.000009895 22 100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 100%
1935 15 0.000007177 15 100%
1936 19 0.000009145 19 100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 100%
1938 13 0.000005876 13 100%
1939 15 0.000006808 15 100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 100%
1944 17 0.00000632 17 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 100%
1947 23 0.000006385 23 100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 100%
1949 17 0.000004878 17 100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 100%
1951 22 0.000005972 22 100%
1952 21 0.000005529 21 100%
1953 22 0.000005709 22 100%
1954 18 0.000004522 18 100%
1955 22 0.000005479 22 100%
1956 32 0.000007761 32 100%
1957 29 0.000006901 29 100%
1958 19 0.000004596 19 100%
1959 18 0.000004329 18 100%
1960 19 0.000004574 19 100%
1961 23 0.000005552 23 100%
1962 17 0.000004213 17 100%
1963 25 0.000006316 25 100%
1964 19 0.000004887 19 100%
1965 19 0.000005241 19 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%

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