Dossie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dossie has been given to 1,034 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1915, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.
Babies named Dossie, 1960
1 in 831,000
Dossie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Dossie over time
In 1972, Dossie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Dossie?
Dossie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1960, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1960
- 1 in 831,000
- 5 of 4,153,934 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 404,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1960
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 575,859 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dossie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1960 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 575,859 children born in 1960 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dossie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dossies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dossie was born before 1920 — so the typical Dossie is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 25.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (144).
Is Dossie 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 1915 (21)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.4% average annual change
Spellings of Dossie
Dossie is not the most common spelling — Bessie is, with 23.0% against Dossie's 0.08%.
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 Dossie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Dossie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 640,787 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 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. Dossie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Dossie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Dossie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 862,538 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
- 2Tennessee1 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. Dossie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dossie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Dossie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dossie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.