Dorrit

Girls' name

Variant of Dorthea

Dorrit has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1918, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Dorrit, 1923

1 in 384,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dorrit: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Dorthea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dorrit means

Dorrit is a variant of Dorthea.

Origin, language, and formation

Dorrit is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorthea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Dorrit between 1918 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1918; its best national rank was #3,974 in 1918.

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 Dorrit?

Dorrit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923: 1 in 384,000; 6 of 2,302,410 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1923: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 265,986 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dorrit 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 1923 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 265,986 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dorrit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dorrits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dorrit was born before 1918 — so the typical Dorrit is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Dorrit 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 1918 (7)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,974; 1918

Spellings of Dorrit

Dorrit is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 88.2% against Dorrit's <0.01%.

Doris88.2%462,548
Lorrie3.3%17,342
Corrie1.6%8,567
Lorri1.5%8,022
Dorris1.4%7,360
Dori0.94%4,952
Torri0.59%3,087
Torrie0.55%2,878

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.

Dorrit 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: #3,974; 1918
Peak year: 1918; 7 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 1923
All-time count: 13
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Dorrit

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

Dorit Dorese Doraly Dorles Dorlas Dorren Dorcia Dorain Doroty Dorelle Dorisha Dorace Dorpha Dorlee Dorane Dorica Dorsha Dorry Doresha Dorthe Doresa Dores Dorline Dorcie

Sibling names for Dorrit

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

Winnifred Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Garnet Mathilda

For a brother

Granville Valentine Ellsworth Orval Buster Sol Omer Ferdinand

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