Meaning not yet researched.
Dottie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 158 in 2025. Its best rank was #434 in 1944.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #434 in 1944; #1,385 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dottie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,385 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1944, at #434.
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Dottie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 158 girls in 2025. Peak: #434 in 1944 · most girls in one year: 278 (1943).
In 2025, 158 US girls were named Dottie, making it the 1,385th most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #1,400 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 160 girls named Dottie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #434, reached in 1944. The most girls given the name in a single year was 278, in 1943. For comparison, it was #3,788 in 2015 and #676 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dottie in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 9,998 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 2,265 babies named Dottie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 967 US girls were named Dottie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,173 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dottie ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #315 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Dotty, Dot and Dotti are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dotty (1,693), Dot (1,392), Dotti (208), Dottye (33).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dottie in the open dataset we use.
Dottie is listed as a nickname for Dorothy.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 14 | #315 | #575 |
| Idaho | 6 | #365 | — |
| Kansas | 8 | #413 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #505 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #612 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #672 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #754 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,057 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,317 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,643 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,144 | #3,561 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2024 | 160 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2023 | 147 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 2022 | 130 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,849 | — | — |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,793 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,109 | — | — |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,451 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,409 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,311 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,965 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,439 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,115 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,022 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,729 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,662 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,482 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,425 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,143 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,828 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,384 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,134 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,266 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,036 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,117 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,730 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,926 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,506 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,231 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,125 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,372 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,787 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1970 | 71 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1968 | 64 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1967 | 78 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1966 | 74 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1965 | 82 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1964 | 131 | #913 | — | — |
| 1963 | 119 | #975 | — | — |
| 1962 | 137 | #902 | — | — |
| 1961 | 188 | #758 | — | — |
| 1960 | 185 | #751 | — | — |
| 1959 | 171 | #781 | — | — |
| 1958 | 215 | #675 | — | — |
| 1957 | 201 | #702 | — | — |
| 1956 | 175 | #731 | — | — |
| 1955 | 150 | #787 | — | — |
| 1954 | 146 | #775 | — | — |
| 1953 | 157 | #726 | — | — |
| 1952 | 170 | #687 | — | — |
| 1951 | 161 | #691 | — | — |
| 1950 | 158 | #676 | — | — |
| 1949 | 148 | #693 | — | — |
| 1948 | 202 | #587 | — | — |
| 1947 | 232 | #560 | — | — |
| 1946 | 245 | #498 | — | — |
| 1945 | 240 | #463 | — | — |
| 1944 | 275 | #434 | — | — |
| 1943 | 278 | #447 | — | — |
| 1942 | 235 | #481 | — | — |
| 1941 | 212 | #481 | — | — |
| 1940 | 198 | #485 | — | — |
| 1939 | 128 | #591 | — | — |
| 1938 | 139 | #584 | — | — |
| 1937 | 136 | #579 | — | — |
| 1936 | 133 | #569 | — | — |
| 1935 | 123 | #582 | — | — |
| 1934 | 127 | #572 | — | — |
| 1933 | 104 | #645 | — | — |
| 1932 | 133 | #566 | — | — |
| 1931 | 92 | #697 | — | — |
| 1930 | 95 | #711 | — | — |
| 1929 | 109 | #671 | — | — |
| 1928 | 102 | #692 | — | — |
| 1927 | 121 | #655 | — | — |
| 1926 | 81 | #808 | — | — |
| 1925 | 65 | #923 | — | — |
| 1924 | 59 | #994 | — | — |
| 1923 | 65 | #908 | — | — |
| 1922 | 81 | #809 | — | — |
| 1921 | 63 | #937 | — | — |
| 1920 | 67 | #887 | — | — |
| 1919 | 69 | #836 | — | — |
| 1918 | 63 | #903 | — | — |
| 1917 | 51 | #981 | — | — |
| 1916 | 53 | #943 | — | — |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1912 | 31 | #907 | — | — |
| 1911 | 30 | #792 | — | — |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1909 | 21 | #894 | — | — |
| 1908 | 31 | #701 | — | — |
| 1907 | 15 | #998 | — | — |
| 1906 | 21 | #802 | — | — |
| 1905 | 33 | #609 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1903 | 15 | #904 | — | — |
| 1902 | 27 | #644 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #750 | — | — |
| 1900 | 22 | #784 | — | — |
| 1899 | 25 | #619 | — | — |
| 1898 | 24 | #667 | — | — |
| 1897 | 23 | #648 | — | — |
| 1896 | 20 | #710 | — | — |
| 1895 | 29 | #549 | — | — |
| 1894 | 12 | #915 | — | — |
| 1893 | 17 | #725 | — | — |
| 1892 | 16 | #737 | — | — |
| 1891 | 15 | #701 | — | — |
| 1890 | 23 | #551 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #854 | — | — |
| 1888 | 16 | #647 | — | — |
| 1887 | 15 | #592 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #665 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #702 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #751 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #955 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #607 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #697 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).