How Many People Are Named Dottie?
people named Dottie are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 57,733 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,998 babies named Dottie in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
278 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of DOROTHY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Dottie in English. Counting Dottie and these spellings together, about 6,798 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Dottie in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Dottie alive today is about 56 years old, and 63% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 46 and 77 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Dottie first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1943, to 278 babies. In 2025, 158 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Dottie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #434, in 1944. In 2025 it ranked #1,385.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,385 |
| Best rank | #434 (1944) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #507 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Dottie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dottie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 323 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dottie was given 6.9 times as often in West Virginia, 4 times in Kentucky and 2.8 times in Tennessee.
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