Dorothea

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Dorothea: Recorded since 1969, with a gap of 13 years, it reached #425 in 1982, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#425highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Dorothea's record

Absent from every published list for 13 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3174
1998	#3142
2000	#3247
2001	#3998
2002	#4137
2003	#3099
2004	#2530
2005	#3382
2007	#3218
2008	#4524
2009	#2148
2010	#2104
2011	#2893
2012	#1809
2013	#1707
2014	#2058
2015	#1783
2016	#1635
2017	#1219
2018	#1170
2019	#980
2020	#1065
2021	#884
2022	#857
2023	#1056
2024	#811

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 Republic of Ireland in 4 of the 57 years from 1969 to 2025.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1969–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1969–2025
Highest recorded position: #425 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1982 (recorded 1969–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Dorothea appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 27 ranked years and 444 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1969.

Dorothea across 2 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.

Dorothea'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#443 (1969)	#425 (1982)	#885 (2025)	4 of 57	14 (1969–2025)	5 (1982)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#811 (2024)	#811 (2024)	27 of 29	444 (1996–2024)	46 (2024)

Dorothea 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 Dorothea in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000s	48	9 of 10	5
2010s	194	10 of 10	19
2020sbusiest	190	5 of 10	38

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 38 births a year.

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

Dorothea 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 2 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #425 in Republic of Ireland in 1982.

Dorothea'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	#811	46	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1056	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#857	41	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#884	40	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#980	36	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1170	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1219	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1635	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1707	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	5	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1969 and 2025, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #425, first reached in 1982.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 13 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 27 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Aicha · #425, 29y
Alys · #426, 29y
Annie-Mae · #424, 26y
Azaria · #424, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Rahma · #424, 45y
Huda · #421, 43y
Zeinab · #413, 43y
Celestine · #443, 21y

Dorothea was ranked #425 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1982. 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.

Dorothea 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 Dorothea without appearing here.

Dorothea moved ahead of

Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3218 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2104 and #5707.
Ellinor Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2148 and #5556.
Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2148 and #5556.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1809 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1707 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Dorothea

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #980 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1065 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1783 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Dorothea

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Dorothea

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dorothea went from #3126 to #811 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 2 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #425 in Republic of Ireland in 1982. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dorothea

Dorothea at a glance

What stands out in Dorothea's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dorothea across 2 official records

Dorothea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dorothea appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Dorothea at a glance

What stands out in Dorothea's record

Dorothea across 2 official records

Dorothea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dorothea appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Dorothea

Dorothea and the names beside it

Dorothea moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Dorothea

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