Dorota

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Dorota: Recorded since 1958, with a gap of 12 years, it reached #172 in 1969, and it stood at #5,581 in 2021.

3registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
64years from first to last
#172highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Dorota's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#3667
2009	#3936
2010	#2843
2011	#4764
2012	#5876
2013	#3160
2014	#2862
2015	#3615
2016	#5785
2017	#3229
2018	#3518
2019	#5591
2020	#3447
2021	#5581

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in every year from 1958 to 1994.

In 2018: #734 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3518 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1958–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #408 among girls in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1958–1994
Highest recorded position: #172 among girls in Norway, in 1969 (recorded 1958–1994).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #5581 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Girls

Dorota appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 37 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 619 births with the name.

Dorota across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dorota's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#408 (1958)	#172 (1969)	#618 (1994)	37 of 37	619 (1958–1994)	27 (1969)
England and Wales · Girls	#3667 (2007)	#2843 (2010)	#5581 (2021)	14 of 15	74 (2007–2021)	8 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#894 (2013)	#651 (2017)	#734 (2018)	4 of 6	16 (2013–2018)	5 (2017)

Dorota by decade in Norway · 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 Dorota in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	9	2 of 10	5
1960s	157	10 of 10	16
1970sbusiest	214	10 of 10	21
1980s	194	10 of 10	19
1990s	45	5 of 10	9

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Dorota appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #172 in Norway in 1969.

Dorota'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
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#618	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#414	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#431	9	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#456	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#324	15	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#418	10	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#331	14	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#232	23	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#255	19	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#241	20	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#211	24	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#201	26	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#236	21	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#224	22	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#294	15	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#209	24	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#215	23	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#210	23	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#225	20	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#209	23	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#240	20	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#255	17	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#223	21	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#245	19	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#195	24	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#172	27	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#347	10	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#183	25	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#246	15	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#203	20	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#184	23	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#269	13	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#339	8	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#336	8	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#349	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#408	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1958 and 2021, ranked in 51 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #172, first reached in 1969.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in Norway in 1969.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 55 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Dorina · #2464, 10y
Doris · #173, 58y
Dorothea · #425, 31y
Dorothy · #75, 65y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Carrie · #170, 49y
Elly · #170, 47y
Riona · #169, 49y
Arkadiusz · #168, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Åsne · #172, 68y
Igor · #170, 65y
Renata · #169, 59y
Rene · #175, 68y

Dorota was ranked #172 in Norway · Girls in 1969. 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.

Dorota 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 Dorota without appearing here.

Dorota moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5876 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2862 and #5691.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5591 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #5493.
Geraldine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #5493.
Kristin Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Dorota

Francis Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3160 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #3214.
Karin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3192.
Brittany Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3518 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.
Maren Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Dorota

Andrea Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 while Andrea went from #329 to #20.
Anette Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 while Anette went from #197 to #50.
Anna Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 while Anna went from #71 to #17.
Camilla Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 while Camilla went from #374 to #6.

Moved the same way as Dorota

Åse Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 and Åse from #38 to #185.
Astrid Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 and Astrid from #23 to #88.
Barbara Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 and Barbara from #275 to #399.
Bente Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Dorota went from #408 to #618 and Bente from #2 to #194.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #172 in Norway in 1969. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Dorota

Dorota at a glance

What stands out in Dorota's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dorota across 3 official records

Dorota by decade in Norway · Girls

Dorota appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Dorota moved ahead of

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Dorota at a glance

What stands out in Dorota's record

Dorota across 3 official records

Dorota by decade in Norway · Girls

Dorota appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Dorota

Dorota and the names beside it

Dorota moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Dorota

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