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Doroteo

Boys' name

Gift + god

Doroteo has been given to 692 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1929, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Doroteo, 2024

1 in 669,000

Doroteo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Doroteo: meaning, origin, and history

Gift + god

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Doroteo means

Doroteo means “gift + god”, associated with δῶρον and θεός.

Origin, language, and formation

Doroteo is used in Esperanto and Spanish.

Doroteo comes through Latin Dorothea and Ancient Greek Δωροθέα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorothy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Esperanto, Doroteo is pronounced /doroˈteo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 692 boys were recorded with the name Doroteo between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1929; its best national rank was #1,575 in 1929.

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 Doroteo?

Doroteo 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 boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Doroteo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 Doroteo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Doroteos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Doroteo was born before 1954 — so the typical Doroteo is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
15.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
387
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1940s — 15.3% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Doroteo 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 1929 (22)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,575
1929

Spellings of Doroteo

Doroteo is not the most common spelling — Dorothy is, with 84.2% against Doroteo's 15.8%.

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 Doroteo is used

Across 1910–2025, Doroteo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 101,307 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Doroteo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Doroteo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,575
1929
Peak year
1929
22 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
692
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Doroteo

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

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Sibling names for Doroteo

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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