Girl
Dortha
Dortha means "gift of God", according to etymological references. It is essentially dormant now, with its last real run being the 1920s. In the current registry, it is a real rarity. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 9 of them.
EtymologyVariant of Dorothea
EtymologyMeaning "gift of God"
Births by decade
1900s
282
1910s
1,297
1920s
2,500
1930s
1,456
1940s
682
1950s
325
1960s
149
1970s
35
1980s
22
1990s
0
2000s
0
2010s
0
Peaked in the 1920s · 6,748 total U.S. births since 1900