Girl
Dorothea
As a girl's name, Dorothea is understood to mean "gift of God". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1920 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
GreekGreek "doron" (gift) + "theos" (God)
EtymologyMeaning "gift of God"
Births by decade
1900s
1,810
1910s
7,750
1920s
8,517
1930s
4,181
1940s
3,111
1950s
3,012
1960s
2,324
1970s
767
1980s
478
1990s
300
2000s
210
2010s
235
Peaked in the 1920s · 32,695 total U.S. births since 1900