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Dottie

#1,385 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Dorothy

Dottie has been given to 9,998 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #1,385 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1943, with 278 recorded.

Babies named Dottie, 2025

1 in 21,000

Dottie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dottie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Dorothy

English

What Dottie means

Dottie is a diminutive of Dorothy.

Origin, language, and formation

Dottie is used in English and Tagalog. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dorothy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Dottie is pronounced /ˈdoti/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,998 girls were recorded with the name Dottie between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 278 in 1943; its best national rank was #434 in 1944.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,307 in 2020 to #1,385 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,787 in 2015 to #1,385 in 2025.

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 Dottie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,000
158 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,385
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,545 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dottie 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,545 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dottie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dotties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dottie was born before 1948 — so the typical Dottie is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,799
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (2,265).

Is Dottie 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
+15
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+922
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.95×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.8%
Peak was 1943 (278)
Years since peak
82
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#434
1944

Spellings of Dottie

Dottie is not the most common spelling — Mattie is, with 27.2% against Dottie's 2.0%.

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 Dottie is used

Across 2016–2025, Dottie was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 21,605 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,564
  2. 2Idaho1 in 5,263
  3. 3Kansas1 in 8,333
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 10,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 14,286
  6. 6Missouri1 in 14,286
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 16,667
  8. 8Ohio1 in 16,667

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.

Dottie around the world

Where Dottie 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
    2009–2025
    #218
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dottie

People whose public names include Dottie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dottie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dottie. Linked forms have their own page here.

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Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dottie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,385
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 922
Best rank ever
#434
1944
Peak year
1943
278 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,998
Count in 2025
158

Names similar to Dottie

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

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Names with a curve like Dottie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dottie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dottie

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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