Dorota
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dorota is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy.
- PLPoland1 in 144◐
- CZCzechia1 in 2.9K
- DEGermany1 in 18K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈276K ●
- Sources
- 218 ●
- 1 in 144 ◐
across 10 countries
90K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #48 | 266,291△ | 38K rec. | 1 in 144 | 266K | Dorota | 203 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,097 | 6.5K rec. | — | listed | Dorota | 120 |
| DE Germany | — | 6,788 | 6.1K rec. | — | 2 | Dorota | 118 |
| CZ Czechia | #307 | 3,698△ | 219 rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 3.7K | Dorota | 52 |
| FR France | — | 3,214 | 2.6K rec. | — | — | Dorota | 157 |
| US United States | — | 3,170 | 26K rec. | 1 in 105K | 3.2K | Dorota | 218 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,263 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Dorota | 70 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,152△ | 382 rec. | 1 in 8.9K | 1.2K | Dorota | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,001 | 884 rec. | — | 1 | Dorota | 69 |
| IT Italy | — | 852 | 820 rec. | — | listed | Dorota | 47 |
| NO Norway | — | 674△ | 288 rec. | 1 in 8.1K | 1.9K | Dorota | 33 |
| SK Slovakia | #482 | 572 | 41 rec. | — | — | Dorota | 44 |
Roughly 266K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 144). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish1.3M96%
- English18K1%
- Czech17K1%
- German7.6K1%
- French3.6K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,343,883 | 96% |
| English | 17,732 | 1% |
| Czech | 16,966 | 1% |
| German | 7,643 | 1% |
| French | 3,626 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dorota is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Dorothy, Dorothea
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
In English, Polish form of Dorothy, 'gift of God'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 23 |
| 1965 | 20 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 25 |
| 1968 | 10 |
| 1969 | 27 |
| 1970 | 24 |
| 1971 | 19 |
| 1972 | 21 |
| 1973 | 17 |
| 1974 | 20 |
| 1975 | 23 |
| 1976 | 20 |
| 1977 | 23 |
| 1978 | 23 |
| 1979 | 24 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 22 |
| 1982 | 21 |
| 1983 | 26 |
| 1984 | 24 |
| 1985 | 20 |
| 1986 | 19 |
| 1987 | 23 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 15 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 37 years between 1958–1994. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dorota Stalińskab. 1953PLPolish actress
- Dorota Kędzierzawskab. 1957PLPolish film director
- Dorota Segdab. 1966PLPolish actress, professor of theater arts
- Izabella Scorupcob. 1970PLnot in their usual namePolish-Swedish model, actress and singer
- Dorota Miśkiewiczb. 1973PLPolish singer
- Dorota Siudekb. 1975PLPolish pair skater
- Dorota Kobielab. 1978PLFilm director and painter
- Dorota Nvotováb. 1982SKSlovak actress and singer
- Dorota Masłowskab. 1983PLPolish writer
- Dorota Rabczewskab. 1984PLPolish singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 49 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 266K | #22 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 266K | #22 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3.7K | #299 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,425 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.9K | #1,119 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.8K | #332 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.8K | #331 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,541 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 767 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 676 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2023 | 676 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 674 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 263 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dorota?
- We estimate roughly 276 thousand people bear Dorota (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dorota have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 266 thousand people bear Dorota in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dorota.
- Where is Dorota most common?
- Dorota is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 144 people carrying it.
- How common is Dorota compared with other names?
- In Poland, Dorota is the 48th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Dorota a male or female name?
- Dorota is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Dorota mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dorota” — the 48th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.