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Dorita

Girls' name

Diminutive of Dora

Dorita has been given to 689 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1954, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Dorita, 1979

1 in 416,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Dora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dorita means

Dorita is a diminutive of Dora.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dorita is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /do.ˈɾi.ta/ for Dorita.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dorita → 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, 689 girls were recorded with the name Dorita between 1919 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,485 in 1951.

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 Dorita?

Dorita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 416,000
8 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
288,240 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dorita 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 1979 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 288,240 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Doritas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorita was born before 1955 — so the typical Dorita is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
513
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Choose a decade

1950s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Dorita 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1954 (42)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,485
1951

Spellings of Dorita

Dorita is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 44.5% against Dorita's 0.07%.

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 Dorita is used

Across 1910–2025, Dorita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,220,182 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 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. Dorita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dorita around the world

Where Dorita 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
    1949–1971
    #1,538
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Dorita 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
#1,485
1951
Peak year
1954
42 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
689
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dorita

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

DorinaDorenaDoriceIshitaKavitaDoriaDorseyDorrieAmritaDoriseAnvitaDorsieDoryDorianDormaDortheaDorotheDorcusMarnitaTalitaJanitaDorleneDoreanDoree

Sibling names for Dorita

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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