Dorrit
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name, variant of Dorthea (= Dorothy)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɒɹɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dorrit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 1.2Kas דורית(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 568Kas Dorit
- DKDenmark1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dorrit itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 named דורית, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled דורית in IL Israel, MA Morocco, LB Lebanon and 2 more and Dorit in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, variant of Dorthea (= Dorothy)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dorrit is read(measured from records)
Dorrit is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English41%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dorrit in English.
- Danish31%
- German13%
weibl. Vom., englische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorrit counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #204 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 6 | דורית | 85 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,213 | 1 in 4.8K | 1.2K | — | 3 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | דורית | 2 |
| US United States | — | 586as Dorit | 1 in 568K | 584 | Dorit | 177 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | דורית | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | דורית | 3 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | דורית | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dorrit 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 Swedish, Dorrit är en form av → Dorotea. Namnet har blivit känt bl.a. genom Charles Dickens roman Lilla Dorrit (1855–57). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 6 februari.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dorrit Blackb. 1891AUAustralian painter (1891–1951)
- Dorrit Weixlerb. 1892DEGerman actress (1892-1916)
- Dorrit Hoffleitb. 1907USAmerican astronomer (1907–2007)
- Dorrit Dekkb. 1917CZBritish graphic designer (1917–2014)
- Dorrit Cohnb. 1924USAustrian-American literary scholar
- Dorrit Willumsenb. 1940DKDanish writer
- Dorrit Romanovab. 1942BRDanish translator, benefactor, philanthropist
- Dorrit Harazimb. 1943BRBrazilian journalist
- Dorrit Moussaieffb. 1950ISFirst Lady of Iceland from 2003 to 2016
- Dorrit Klotzbücherb. 1957DEjudge
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.2K | #355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 128 | #49,014 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 6 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dorrit mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, variant of Dorthea (= Dorothy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dorrit?
- A machine transcription gives /dɒɹɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Dorrit a male or female name?
- Dorrit 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 are other forms of the name Dorrit?
- In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dora and Doreen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dorrit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named דורית in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dorrit most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dorrit is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dorrit?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,213 people named Dorrit, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorrit compared with other names?
- In Israel, Dorrit is the 204th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dorrit?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorritThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Dorrit” — the 204th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.