Dorothee

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dorothee is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Du grec Dorotheos/Dorothea, « don de Dieu ».

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 532◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 677
  • IEIreland1 in 705

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈325K ●

across 7 countries

#374 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
497 ●

6.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.1K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

DorothyLatin · English●5.7M records
דורותיHebrew · Hebrew●1.8K records
ΔωροθεαGreek · Greek●116 records
โดโรธThai · Thai●5 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dorothy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 18 more, Dorothea in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa and 2 more and Dorothée in BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Du grec Dorotheos/Dorothea, « don de Dieu ».

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dorothee is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#85388,675369K rec.—7Dorothy179
US United States#86304,5485.3M rec.1 in 1.1K305KDorothy497
FR France#544128,35857K rec.—16KDorothee271
CA Canada#107110,275108K rec.—14Dorothy170
AU Australia#207108,741103K rec.—82Dorothy171
DE Germany#226107,93496K rec.—2Dorothea164
IT Italy#21043,89744K rec.—81Dorothy57
PH Philippines#85324,42423K rec.——Dorothy113
RU Russia#98719,40420K rec.——Dorothy26
SG Singapore#2315,89316K rec.——Dorothy85
NL Netherlands#33114,7499.8K rec.1 in 1.2K15KDorothea66
CN China—13,77714K rec.——Dorothy51

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French107K70%
  • German32K21%
  • English6.9K5%
  • Western Frisian1K1%
  • Dutch1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French107,27470%
German31,78721%
English6,9395%
Western Frisian1,0391%
Dutch1,0351%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dorothee is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8.2K records spelled Dorothee3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Also written Dorotheé, Dorothèe

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name993 records spelled Dorothee2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Dorothée

  • a separate given name815 records spelled Dorothee4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Dorothée, Dorotheé, Dorothèe

  • Portuguese given name478 records spelled Dorothee4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Switzerland, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Dorothée, Doróthee

  • Finnish given name196 records spelled Dorothee4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Dorothée

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dorothee is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Du grec doron + theos, « don de Dieu » ; prénom de sainte Dorothée.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

02.557.51019201940196010 · 1913

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Dorothee in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique), Martinique, 1903–1969
Yearrecords
19035
19055
19065
19075
19085
19115
19125
191310
19145
191510
19165
19185
19195
19205
19215
19225
19235
19245
192510
19265
192710
192810
19295
19305
19315
19325
19335
193410
19355
19365
193710
193810
193910
19415
19425
19435
19465
19495
19505
195210
19545
19555
19565
19575
19585
19595
19605
19615
19625
19655
19685
19695

MQ INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) — 52 years between 1903–1969. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Dorothee Sölle, b. 1929Dorothee Wilms, b. 1929Dorothee Stapelfeldt, b. 1956Dorothee Schön, b. 1961Doro Pesch, b. 1964Dorothee Schneider, b. 1969Dorothee Mields, b. 1971Dorothee Bär, b. 1978Dorothee Martin, b. 1978Dorothee Elmiger, b. 1985

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 38 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Dorothee
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)200816K#2,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020498#20,672
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—296#2,830
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—74#10,487
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—73#6,614
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—60#10,673
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)193260#446
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—49#12,548
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—48#28,800
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202437#1,868
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199133—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202030—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 297 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dorothee?
We estimate roughly 325 thousand people bear Dorothee (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Dorothee have the most bearers?
Dorothee is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled dorothy.
How common is Dorothee compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Dorothee is the 85th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Dorothee a male or female name?
Dorothee 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 Dorothee mean?
Recorded meaning: Du grec Dorotheos/Dorothea, « don de Dieu ».
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dorothee” — the 85th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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