Dottie

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Dottie: Recorded every year since 2009, its highest recorded position is #204, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#204highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2009–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#3422
2010	#4012
2011	#1807
2012	#1210
2013	#982
2014	#750
2015	#656
2016	#573
2017	#383
2018	#337
2019	#302
2020	#273
2021	#259
2022	#243
2023	#204
2024	#219

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.

In 2024: #219 among girls in England and Wales, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #476 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2009–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2009
First recorded at #3422 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: #204 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2009–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Dottie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 16 years beginning in 2009, and has registered 1,705 births with the name.

Dottie 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.

Dottie'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
England and Wales · Girls	#3422 (2009)	#204 (2023)	#219 (2024)	16 of 16	1,705 (2009–2024)	241 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#418 (2022)	#391 (2023)	#407 (2024)	3 of 3	9 (2022–2024)	3 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#856 (2023)	#608 (2025)	#608 (2025)	2 of 3	8 (2023–2025)	5 (2025)

Dottie 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 Dottie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	6	1 of 10	6
2010s	689	10 of 10	69
2020sbusiest	1,010	5 of 10	202

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 202 births a year.

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

Dottie 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 4 regions, from 2009 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #204 in England and Wales in 2023.

Dottie'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	#219	218	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#204	241	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#243	195	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#259	182	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#273	174	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#302	157	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#337	143	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#383	118	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#573	73	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#656	62	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#982	37	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1210	27	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1807	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2009 and 2025, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #204, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 241 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 15 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.

Dorthea · #304, 27y
Doruk · #2199, 13y
Dotty · #641, 16y
Dougal · #619, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Everleigh · #206, 15y
Mylah · #209, 17y
Pola · #199, 22y
Oliwier · #196, 22y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Kajus · #204, 22y
Othelie · #205, 22y
Neo · #206, 26y
Rioghan · #202, 13y

Dottie was ranked #204 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. 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.

Dottie 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 Dottie without appearing here.

Dottie moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4012 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1807 and #5785.
Helene Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4012 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1807 and #4049.
Karin Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4012 and #1993 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1807 and #3549.
Kristin Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4012 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1807 and #3549.

Moved the opposite way to Dottie

Abigail Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 while Abigail went from #36 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 while Aisling went from #1287 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 while Alex went from #495 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Dottie

Ada Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 and Ada from #547 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 and Alma from #1105 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 and Amelia from #9 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dottie went from #3422 to #219 and Aria from #1248 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 4 regions, from 2009 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #204 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dottie

Dottie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dottie across 3 official records

Dottie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dottie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Dottie moved ahead of

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Dottie at a glance

Dottie across 3 official records

Dottie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dottie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Dottie

Dottie and the names beside it

Dottie moved ahead of

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