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Dorothee

Girls' name

Variant of Dorothea

Dorothee has been given to 295 babies in the U.S. since 1906. 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 1921, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Dorothee, 2021

1 in 565,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorothee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Dorothea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dorothee means

Dorothee is a variant of Dorothea.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dorothee is used in German.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dorothee → Dorothea. The family’s meaning is “gift of god”, recorded in the naming reference for Dorothea.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorothea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 295 girls were recorded with the name Dorothee between 1906 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,355 in 1906.

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.

How common is Dorothee?

Dorothee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dorothee 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorothee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorothees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorothee was born before 1921 — so the typical Dorothee is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Dorothee 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 1921 (26)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,355
1906

Spellings of Dorothee

Dorothee is not the most common spelling — Dorothy is, with 95.9% against Dorothee's 0.03%.

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 Dorothee is used

Across 1910–2025, Dorothee was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,460,088 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 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. Dorothee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dorothee around the world

Where Dorothee 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
    1900–2025
    #6,353
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

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

Dorothee 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
#1,355
1906
Peak year
1921
26 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
295
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dorothee

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

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Sibling names for Dorothee

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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