Dotty

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dotty: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dotty: Recorded every year since 2009, it reached #641 in 2018, and it stood at #1,036 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
16times a registrar ranked it
16years from first to last
#641highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2009–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#5556
2010	#3156
2011	#2636
2012	#2717
2013	#1400
2014	#1299
2015	#1279
2016	#1749
2017	#715
2018	#641
2019	#796
2020	#955
2021	#918
2022	#982
2023	#865
2024	#1036

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2009 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2009–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2009
First recorded at #5556 among girls in England and Wales in 2009 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2009–2024
Highest recorded position: #641 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018 (recorded 2009–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1036 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Dotty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dotty in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	283	10 of 10	28
2020sbusiest	183	5 of 10	37

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 37 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 40, from 17 to 57.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dotty appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #641 in England and Wales in 2018.

Dotty's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1036	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#865	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#982	35	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#918	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#955	36	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#796	47	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#641	63	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#715	57	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1279	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1400	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2009 and 2024, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #641, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 63 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
16 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,036position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
63births registered in its largest year, 201850 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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Dougie · #287, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ovie · #638, 15y
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Yusha · #648, 19y
Aviraj · #651, 14y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Abiha · #638, 18y
Arabelle · #638, 18y
Blayke · #638, 14y
Ireoluwa · #638, 17y

Dotty was ranked #641 in England and Wales · Girls in 2018. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dotty and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dotty without appearing here.

Dotty moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2636 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1400 and #5742.
Freddie Compare
In 2016 they stood at #5556 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #715 and #4063.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2717 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1400 and #4739.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2717 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1400 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Dotty

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #796 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #955 and #460.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #865 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1036 and #952.

Moved the opposite way to Dotty

Abigail Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 while Abigail went from #36 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 while Aisling went from #1287 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 while Alex went from #495 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Dotty

Ada Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 and Ada from #547 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 and Alma from #1105 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 and Amelia from #9 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dotty went from #5556 to #1036 and Aria from #1248 to #35.

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Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #641 in England and Wales in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Dotty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Dotty at a glance

Dotty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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