Dorothea

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Greek

Meaning

Dorothea, also spelt Dorothee, Dorothรฉe, and Dorotea, is a female given name from Greek ฮ”ฯ‰ฯฮฟฮธฮญฮฑ meaning "god's gift". In English it is more commonly spelt Dorothy. People with this name include:

From Wikipedia

Dorothea first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 62 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1957 with 176 babies (rank #98 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Dorothea

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Dorothea yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

3,289
Total babies (all years)
62
Years in the data
176
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952145#106
1953147#104
1954138#117
1955159#104
1956174#95
1957176#98
1958149#125
1959153#121
1960153#115
1961152#125
1962140#135
1963145#131
1964124#147
1965142#134
1966114#159
1967106#169
196884#208
196969#258
197065#267
197149#312
197248#293
197338#334
197428#398
197535#339
197628#369
197720#458
197830#366
197922#439
198024#446
198128#400
198232#362
198325#419
198425#429
198521#503
198623#472
198725#454
198813#665
198917#577
199016#628
199117#629
199216#621
199318#601
199414#675
199511#759
199615#631
199722#514
19988#889
199914#659
200011#766
20019#824
20023#1,304
20033#1,288
20046#971
20057#893
200610#723
20073#1,221
20083#1,207
20096#906
20104#1,030
20112#1,246
20122#1,119
20133#1,074