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Dodie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Dorothy

Dodie has been given to 1,258 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Dodie, 1987

1 in 721,000

Dodie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dodie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Dorothy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dodie means

Dodie is a diminutive of Dorothy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dodie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdoʊ.di/ for Dodie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorothy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,258 girls were recorded with the name Dodie between 1920 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 89 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,234 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dodie?

Dodie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,770 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dodie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dodie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dodies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dodie was born before 1965 — so the typical Dodie is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,185
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (464).

Is Dodie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (89)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,234
1963

Spellings of Dodie

Dodie is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 36.0% against Dodie's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dodie is used

Across 1910–2025, Dodie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 290,758 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dodie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dodie around the world

Where Dodie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1965–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dodie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,234
1963
Peak year
1971
89 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
1,258
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dodie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KodieDoddieCodieCadieJadieAudieKadieTeddieZadieLyndieHaddieIndieLydieByrdieSaydieAndieBradieBrodieDodiLindieLudieLiddieArdieDody

Sibling names for Dodie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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