Dorthe
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dorthe is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, a variant of Dorthea ( =Dorothy) popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.
- DKDenmark1 in 417◐
- NONorway1 in 13K
- DEGermany1 in 19K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15K ●
- Sources
- 126 ●
- 1 in 417 ◐
across 8 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dörthe in DE Germany, ES Spain.
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●
a female given name, a variant of Dorthea ( =Dorothy) popular in the 1960s and the 1970s
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #95 | 14,066△ | 4.7K rec. | 1 in 417 | 14K | Dorthe | 126 |
| DE Germany | — | 6,295 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Dörthe | 66 |
| NO Norway | — | 434 | 227 rec. | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | Dorthe | 29 |
| GL Greenland | #22 | 279 | 4 rec. | — | 223 | Dorthe | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 243 | 205 rec. | — | — | Dorthe | 33 |
| AU Australia | — | 193 | 177 rec. | — | 1 | Dorthe | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 131 | 102 rec. | 1 in 78K | 131 | Dorthe | 16 |
| TN Tunisia | — | 123 | 130 rec. | — | — | Dorthe | 1 |
| US United States | — | 111 | 1.8K rec. | 1 in 3M | 111 | Dorthe | 76 |
| ES Spain | — | 66 | 72 rec. | — | — | Dörthe | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | 55 | 51 rec. | — | — | Dorthe | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 52 | 52 rec. | 1 in 332K | 52 | Dorthe | 9 |
Roughly 14K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 417). 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●
- Danish61K90%
- English1.9K3%
- German1.7K3%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.4K2%
- French2881%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 60,922 | 90% |
| English | 1,930 | 3% |
| German | 1,739 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,418 | 2% |
| French | 288 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1952 | 4 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 12 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 4 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1986 | 4 |
| 1987 | 4 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1992 | 4 |
| 1994 | 4 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 19 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 51 years between 1950–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dorthe Kollob. 1947DKDanish singer
- Dorthe Dahl-Jensenb. 1958DKDanish geophysicist and glaciologist
- Dorthe Skappelb. 1962NONorwegian journalist
- Dorthe Andersenb. 1968Danish singer, musician and presenter
- Dorthe Damsgaardb. 1969USDanish pornographic actress
- Dorthe Norsb. 1970DKDanish writer
- Dorthe Holmb. 1972DKDanish female curler
- Anne Dorthe Tanderupb. 1972DKDanish handball player
- Dorthe Landschulzb. 1976DEGerman illustrator
- Dorthe Pedersenb. 1977DKDanish rower
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
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 · 227 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dorthe?
- We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Dorthe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dorthe have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Dorthe in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dorthe.
- How common is Dorthe compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Dorthe is the 95th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
- Is Dorthe a male or female name?
- Dorthe 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 Dorthe mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, a variant of Dorthea ( =Dorothy) popular in the 1960s and the 1970s
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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.
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, “Dorthe” — the 95th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.