How Many People Are Named Dotty?
people named Dotty are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 389,276 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,693 babies named Dotty in Social Security records from 1909 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
53 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 Dotty in English. Counting Dotty and these spellings together, about 6,798 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Dotty in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Dotty alive today is about 70 years old, and 86% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 64 and 80 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Dotty first appears in the records in 1909 and was given most often in 1945, to 53 babies. In 2025, 7 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1909 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Dotty has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #988, in 1939. In 2025 it ranked #12,245.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #12,245 |
| Best rank | #988 (1939) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,236 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Dotty alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dotty were born in Kentucky than in any other state: about 28 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dotty was given about 10 times as often in Kentucky.
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