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How popular is “Dorothea” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dorothea” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dorothea” 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 “Dorothea” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dorothea” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dorothea” 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
1880 16 0.000079411 16 100%
1881 21 0.000108984 21 100%
1882 15 0.00006771 15 100%
1883 30 0.000138283 30 100%
1884 40 0.000164297 40 100%
1885 34 0.000141164 34 100%
1886 35 0.000137085 35 100%
1887 62 0.000250614 62 100%
1888 38 0.000126889 38 100%
1889 56 0.000193808 56 100%
1890 52 0.000172528 52 100%
1891 67 0.000233716 67 100%
1892 65 0.000194393 65 100%
1893 88 0.000270584 88 100%
1894 77 0.000227347 77 100%
1895 76 0.000216512 76 100%
1896 83 0.000232178 83 100%
1897 91 0.00026228 91 100%
1898 114 0.000298856 114 100%
1899 94 0.000277095 94 100%
1900 140 0.000310933 140 100%
1901 109 0.0003152 109 100%
1902 124 0.000320635 124 100%
1903 136 0.000356768 136 100%
1904 168 0.000416372 168 100%
1905 217 0.000511887 217 100%
1906 178 0.00041545 178 100%
1907 239 0.000513548 239 100%
1908 246 0.000503429 246 100%
1909 253 0.000494891 253 100%
1910 307 0.000519713 307 100%
1911 389 0.000603777 389 100%
1912 562 0.00056879 562 100%
1913 658 0.00057866 658 100%
1914 731 0.000516118 731 100%
1915 925 0.000504795 925 100%
1916 1036 0.000535562 1036 100%
1917 1076 0.00053619 1076 100%
1918 1065 0.000490532 1065 100%
1919 1001 0.000474353 1001 100%
1920 1110 0.000490577 1110 100%
1921 1057 0.000452773 1057 100%
1922 931 0.0004067 931 100%
1923 925 0.000401741 925 100%
1924 937 0.000393431 937 100%
1925 891 0.000381862 891 100%
1926 758 0.000330153 758 100%
1927 707 0.000304826 707 100%
1928 630 0.000278645 630 100%
1929 572 0.00026093 572 100%
1930 640 0.000287862 640 100%
1931 505 0.000239975 505 100%
1932 443 0.000209824 443 100%
1933 422 0.000211058 422 100%
1934 441 0.000212344 441 100%
1935 402 0.000192354 402 100%
1936 368 0.000177129 368 100%
1937 309 0.000145025 309 100%
1938 316 0.00014282 316 100%
1939 334 0.000151581 334 100%
1940 350 0.000151996 350 100%
1941 295 0.000121079 295 100%
1942 340 0.000124459 340 100%
1943 335 0.000118687 335 100%
1944 300 0.000111521 300 100%
1945 249 0.000093859 249 100%
1946 287 0.000089819 287 100%
1947 316 0.000087721 316 100%
1948 296 0.000085735 296 100%
1949 343 0.000098428 343 100%
1950 308 0.000087916 308 100%
1951 283 0.000076824 283 100%
1952 320 0.000084255 320 100%
1953 302 0.000078367 302 100%
1954 298 0.000074861 298 100%
1955 312 0.000077707 312 100%
1956 300 0.000072762 294 6 96%
1957 300 0.000071392 300 100%
1958 298 0.000072087 298 100%
1959 293 0.000070467 293 100%
1960 280 0.000067408 280 100%
1961 309 0.000074596 309 100%
1962 312 0.000077316 312 100%
1963 259 0.000065434 259 100%
1964 256 0.00006585 256 100%
1965 211 0.0000582 211 100%
1966 207 0.000059557 207 100%
1967 184 0.000054199 184 100%
1968 160 0.00004736 160 100%
1969 148 0.000042586 148 100%
1970 129 0.000035769 129 100%
1971 101 0.000029426 101 100%
1972 102 0.000032453 102 100%
1973 66 0.000021877 66 100%
1974 71 0.000023355 71 100%
1975 64 0.000021196 64 100%
1976 56 0.000018456 56 100%
1977 61 0.000019204 61 100%
1978 59 0.000018589 59 100%
1979 59 0.000017734 59 100%
1980 49 0.000014226 49 100%
1981 54 0.00001561 54 100%
1982 48 0.000013683 48 100%
1983 52 0.000015014 52 100%
1984 41 0.000011752 41 100%
1985 43 0.000012048 43 100%
1986 45 0.000012651 45 100%
1987 44 0.000012203 44 100%
1988 51 0.000013802 51 100%
1989 51 0.000013266 51 100%
1990 43 0.000010879 43 100%
1991 38 0.000009755 38 100%
1992 33 0.000008591 33 100%
1993 32 0.000008487 32 100%
1994 31 0.000008339 31 100%
1995 22 0.000006007 22 100%
1996 21 0.000005758 21 100%
1997 27 0.000007447 27 100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 100%
1999 28 0.00000758 28 100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 100%
2001 18 0.000004808 18 100%
2002 33 0.000008828 33 100%
2003 26 0.000006838 26 100%
2004 22 0.000005758 22 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 20 0.000005055 20 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 100%
2012 19 0.000005195 19 100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 100%
2014 28 0.000007555 28 100%
2015 38 0.000010268 38 100%
2016 44 0.000011993 44 100%
2017 45 0.000012583 45 100%
2018 60 0.000017065 60 100%
2019 48 0.000013829 48 100%
2020 59 0.000017662 59 100%
2021 74 0.000021842 74 100%
2022 63 0.000018622 63 100%
2023 62 0.000018724 62 100%
2024 93 0.000027941 93 100%

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