Girl
Dorothy
Dorothy is a girl's name, a household name, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.
GreekGift of God
GreekGod's gift, from Dorothea
Births by decade
1900s
39,248
1910s
207,957
1920s
369,874
1930s
211,499
1940s
132,754
1950s
74,713
1960s
33,140
1970s
11,687
1980s
7,164
1990s
4,210
2000s
2,704
2010s
2,863
Peaked in the 1920s · 1,097,813 total U.S. births since 1900