Dottie

What Dottie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Dottie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,767 in 2015, #1,382 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Dottie?

US: Rising: up from #3767 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #656 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1944, when 275 girls got the name (#434 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 10,173 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,178 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ID (0.84 per 1,000 girls), UT (0.82 per 1,000 girls), KS (0.68 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Dottie is #1382 in the US and #218 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Dottie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Dottie

Girls

• Jane#221“God is gracious”^*
• Rosie#283Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #775 in 2015, #283 in 2025
• Blake#295“black”^*
• Elowyn#299Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,619 in 2015, #299 in 2025
• Rosalie#171“rose”^*
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025

For a brother

• Dean#125“valley”^*
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Beau#60Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #203 in 2015, #60 in 2025
• Brooks#64Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”^*
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Dottie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.