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How popular is “Dorothey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dorothey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dorothey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dorothey” 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 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 14 0.000009885 14 100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 100%
1916 25 0.000012924 25 100%
1917 22 0.000010963 22 100%
1918 29 0.000013357 29 100%
1919 29 0.000013742 29 100%
1920 31 0.000013701 31 100%
1921 28 0.000011994 28 100%
1922 40 0.000017474 40 100%
1923 37 0.00001607 37 100%
1924 36 0.000015116 36 100%
1925 46 0.000019715 46 100%
1926 44 0.000019165 44 100%
1927 35 0.00001509 35 100%
1928 37 0.000016365 37 100%
1929 25 0.000011404 25 100%
1930 39 0.000017542 39 100%
1931 25 0.00001188 25 100%
1932 33 0.00001563 33 100%
1933 27 0.000013504 27 100%
1934 24 0.000011556 24 100%
1935 30 0.000014355 30 100%
1936 31 0.000014921 31 100%
1937 27 0.000012672 27 100%
1938 28 0.000012655 28 100%
1939 25 0.000011346 25 100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 100%
1941 18 0.000007388 18 100%
1942 30 0.000010982 30 100%
1943 32 0.000011337 32 100%
1944 18 0.000006691 18 100%
1945 21 0.000007916 21 100%
1946 27 0.00000845 27 100%
1947 22 0.000006107 22 100%
1948 14 0.000004055 14 100%
1949 14 0.000004017 14 100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 100%
1952 14 0.000003686 14 100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%

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