How popular is “Dorothie” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Dorothie” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Dorothie” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1910	5	0.000008464	5	100%
1912	5	0.00000506	5	100%
1913	5	0.000004397	5	100%
1914	13	0.000009179	13	100%
1915	18	0.000009823	18	100%
1916	25	0.000012924	25	100%
1917	30	0.00001495	30	100%
1918	21	0.000009672	21	100%
1919	27	0.000012795	27	100%
1920	27	0.000011933	27	100%
1921	32	0.000013707	32	100%
1922	31	0.000013542	31	100%
1923	27	0.000011726	27	100%
1924	36	0.000015116	36	100%
1925	29	0.000012429	29	100%
1926	17	0.000007404	17	100%
1927	12	0.000005174	12	100%
1928	25	0.000011057	25	100%
1929	12	0.000005474	12	100%
1930	10	0.000004498	10	100%
1931	13	0.000006178	13	100%
1932	17	0.000008052	17	100%
1933	9	0.000004501	9	100%
1934	12	0.000005778	12	100%
1936	6	0.000002888	6	100%
1937	6	0.000002816	6	100%
1938	6	0.000002712	6	100%
1939	5	0.000002269	5	100%
1942	9	0.000003295	9	100%
1944	5	0.000001859	5	100%
1945	6	0.000002262	6	100%
1947	6	0.000001666	6	100%
1952	7	0.000001843	7	100%
1953	6	0.000001557	6	100%

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