Dorothea
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dorothea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 44th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 426as Dorothy
- IEIreland≈1 in 444as Dorothy
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 Dorothea 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #197 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 557 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300,000 named Dorothy, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dorothy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 6 more.
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 from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dorothea is read(measured from records)
Dorothea is one spelling over 2 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.
- English65%
A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Greek, 'gift of God'
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Greek; the gift of God
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- German22%
a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Dorothea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 426 | — | Dorothy | 45 |
| US United States | #88 | 304,932as Dorothy | 1 in 1.1K | 305K | Dorothy | 557 |
| GB United Kingdom | #97 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 515 | 7 | Dorothy | 233 |
| IT Italy | #168 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 792 | 81 | Dorothy | 55 |
| EG Egypt | #556 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Dorothy | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 15,115 | 1 in 1.1K | 15K | Dorothy | 65 |
| IE Ireland | #69 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 444 | — | Dorothy | 77 |
| SG Singapore | #44 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 534 | — | Dorothy | 91 |
| NZ New Zealand | #92 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 468 | 13 | Dorothy | 96 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburgb. 1670DEDuchess of Parma (1670-1748)
- Sophia Dorothea of Hanoverb. 1687DEPrussian royal consort of Frederick William I
- Dorothea Christiane Erxlebenb. 1715DEphysician (1715–1762)
- Frederica of Badenb. 1781SEnot in their usual nameSwedish Queen (1781-1826)
- Dorothea Lynde Dixb. 1802USAmerican author and social reformer (1802–1887)
- Sophia of Prussiab. 1870DEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Greece (1870–1932)
- Dorothea Douglassb. 1878GBEnglish tennis and badminton player (1878–1960)
- Dorothea Langeb. 1895USAmerican photojournalist (1895-1965)
- Mrs. Max Ernstb. 1910USnot in their usual nameAmerican painter (1910–2012)
- leader of the free worldb. 1954DEnot in their usual namechancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 15K | #153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,241 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 366 | #1,981 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 113 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 15 | #709 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #2,241 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1933 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2021 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Dorothea mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Dorothea?
- In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dora and Doreen are forms of the same name in other languages; Dorit and Ditte are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Dorothea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 million people named Dorothy in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dorothea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dorothea is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- Is Dorothea a male or female name?
- Dorothea 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.
- How common is the name Dorothea?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 15,115 people named Dorothea, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorothea compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Dorothea is the 44th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorotheaThe 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, “Dorothea” — the 44th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.