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Doretta

Girls' name

Diminutive of Dora

Doretta has been given to 2,597 babies in the U.S. since 1888. 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 1953, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Doretta, 2024

1 in 669,000

Doretta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Doretta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Dora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Doretta means

Doretta is a diminutive of Dora.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Doretta is used in English and Italian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Doretta → Dora → Theodora → Theodore. The family’s meaning is “god + gift”, recorded in English with the source elements θεός and δῶρον.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,597 girls were recorded with the name Doretta between 1888 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1953; its best national rank was #908 in 1953.

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 Doretta?

Doretta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Doretta 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doretta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Doretta was born before 1950 — so the typical Doretta is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.81%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,308
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1950s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (741).

Is Doretta 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (107)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#908
1953

Spellings of Doretta

Doretta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 63.9% against Doretta's 0.93%.

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 Doretta is used

Across 1910–2025, Doretta was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 229,138 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Connecticut1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Doretta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Doretta around the world

Where Doretta 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.

  • France
    1961–1961
    #1,846
    in 1961
  • South Australia
    1950–1950
    #436
    in 1950

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Doretta 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
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Best rank ever
#908
1953
Peak year
1953
107 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,597
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Doretta

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

DortheaDorianArlettaColettaDorathyDorinaDortheyLouettaDorcasDorothaDorindaDorineJuliettaDoriaLovettaViolettaJoettaBrittaDorethaGrettaAnnettaCorettaRenattaLaretta

Names with a curve like Doretta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Doretta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DrusillaEarthaFrediaKathernVernettaLaureneKathaleenVonnieEvonRayePhillisPhyliss

Sibling names for Doretta

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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