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Baby name
Dorothy
Girl
Origin of the name
Dorothy is the English form of the Greek Dorothea, made of dōron, “gift,” and theos, “God”: “gift of God.”
Short-lived name
1,112,231births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 2rank at its peak, in 1924
Where babies named Dorothy are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Dorothy is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Dorothy is most common in Mississippi (1.9 times), Pennsylvania (1.6) and South Dakota (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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