Dorothee

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Du grec Dorotheos/Dorothea, « don de Dieu »

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dɔʁɔti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dorothee 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.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • 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 Dorothee 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)

≈3,300,000 named Dorothy, est.

#197 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
557 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DorothyLatin(measured from records)
דורותיHebrew(measured from records)
ΔωροθεαGreek(measured from records)
โดโรธThai(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 5 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)

Du grec Dorotheos/Dorothea, « don de Dieu ».

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dorothee 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.

Where Dorothee is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈3,300,000 est.≈1 in 426—Dorothy45
US United States#88304,932as Dorothy1 in 1.1K305KDorothy557
GB United Kingdom#97≈130,000 est.≈1 in 5157Dorothy233
IT Italy#168≈79,000 est.≈1 in 79281Dorothy55
EG Egypt#556≈75,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Dorothy22
FR France#539≈12,000 est.≈1 in 5.8K16KDorothee282
IE Ireland#69≈12,000 est.≈1 in 444—Dorothy77
SG Singapore#44≈12,000 est.≈1 in 534—Dorothy91
NZ New Zealand#92≈11,000 est.≈1 in 46813Dorothy96

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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dorothee is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Also written Dorothèe, Dorotheé

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Dorothée

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Dorotheé, Dorothée, Dorothèe

  • Portuguese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Dorothée, Doróthee

  • Finnish name4 spellings in the group

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Dorothée

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dorothee 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 French, Du grec doron + theos, « don de Dieu » ; prénom de sainte Dorothée.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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)

19201940196019802000Dorothee Sölle, b. 1929Dorothee Wilms, b. 1929Dorothee Stapelfeldt, b. 1956Dorothee Schön, b. 1961Doro Pesch, b. 1964Dorothee Schneider, b. 1969Dorothee Mields, b. 1971Dorothee Bär, b. 1978Dorothee Martin, b. 1978Dorothee Elmiger, b. 1985

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)

InformalBonjour Dorothee,Hi Dorothee, (English)

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 38 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Dorothee
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)200816K#2,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020498#20,672
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)193260#446
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20216—
FR FranceDictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007)———
FR FranceLe Grand Guide des Prénoms———

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 Dorothee mean, and where does it come from?
Du grec Dorotheos/Dorothea, « don de Dieu ». Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
How do you pronounce Dorothee?
A machine transcription gives /dɔʁɔti/ (IPA) for French.
Is Dorothee a male or female name?
Dorothee 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 Dorothee?
In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dorothea and Dorthy are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Dorothee have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 million people named Dorothy in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Dorothee?
In the United States, the national register counted 304,932 people named Dorothy in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Dorothee compared with other names?
In Singapore, Dorothee is the 44th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.

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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, “Dorothee” — the 44th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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