Dorit

Girls' name

Variant of Dorthea

Dorit has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1980, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Dorit, 1983

1 in 693,000

Dorit over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorit: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Dorthea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dorit means

Dorit is a variant of Dorthea.

Origin, language, and formation

Dorit is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorthea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Dorit between 1965 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1980; its best national rank was #5,106 in 1967.

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 Dorit?

Dorit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983: 1 in 693,000; 5 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only: 1 in 334,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 480,076 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dorit 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 1983 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 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorit was born before 1973 — so the typical Dorit is around 52 today.

Median birth year: 1973; About 52 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 45; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Dorit 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1980 (10)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 50.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,106; 1967

Spellings of Dorit

Dorit is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 42.3% against Dorit's <0.01%.

Doris42.3%462,548
Lori31.3%341,911
Dora9.7%105,930
Tori3.4%37,134
Lorie2.0%21,964
Kori1.4%14,822
Cori1.1%12,198
Dovie0.83%9,076

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.

Dorit 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: #5,106; 1967
Peak year: 1980; 10 that year
First recorded: 1965
Last recorded: 1983
All-time count: 45
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Dorit

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

Dorrit Dorsa Dorey Doras Dorys Doran Doren Dorea Dorca Doral Dorah Dorin Dories Dorcie Dorisa Dorota Dores Doresa Dorna Dorthe Dorry Dorace Dorien Dorri

Sibling names for Dorit

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

For a sister

Charissa Sharonda Shameka Tosha Candi Siobhan Starla Shamika

For a brother

Leopoldo Jerod Wilfredo Antwan Ashley Chauncey Kareem Cedrick

Explore around Dorit

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