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Dorota

Girls' name

English equivalent of Dorothy

Dorota has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1972, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Dorota, 1999

1 in 738,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorota: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Dorothy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dorota means

Dorota is a English equivalent of Dorothy.

Origin, language, and formation

Dorota is used in Czech, Polish and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorothy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Dorota is pronounced [ˈdorota].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 49 girls were recorded with the name Dorota between 1970 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1972; its best national rank was #6,739 in 1972.

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 Dorota?

Dorota had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dorota 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 1999 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 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorotas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorota was born before 1974 — so the typical Dorota is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
49
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Dorota 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 1972 (7)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,739
1972

Spellings of Dorota

Dorota is not the most common spelling — Dorothy is, with 83.5% against Dorota's <0.01%.

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 Dorota is used

Across 1910–2025, Dorota was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Dorota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dorota around the world

Where Dorota 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2013–2018
    #734
    in 2018
  • Norway
    1880–1994
    #606
    in 1994
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,118
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1950–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dorota 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
#6,739
1972
Peak year
1972
7 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dorota

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

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Sibling names for Dorota

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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