Dorthea
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdɔɹðiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dorthea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 173K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 254K
- DKDenmark1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
1,310 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorthea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,310 | 1 in 254K | 1.3K | Dorthea | 202 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Dorthea | 32 |
| DK Denmark | #716 | 374 | 1 in 16K | 374 | Dorthea | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Dorthea | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 285 | 1 in 19K | 1K | Dorthea | 28 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Dorthea | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Dorthea | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 155K | listed | — | 2 |
1,310 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the is-skra-nofn register. 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)
Dorthea 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 English, variant of Dorothy, 'gift of God'
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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)
- Dorthea Hansdatter Bakkeb. 1818NONorwegian author (1818-1900)
- Dorthea Valenb. 1844NONorwegian missionary (1844-1923)
- Dorthea Bassøeb. 1847NONorwegian Missionary
- Dorthea Guldbrandsenb. 1858NONorwegian missionary (1858-1912)
- Dorthea Emilie Tvedtb. 1882NONorwegian missionary (1882-1969)
- Ingeborg Frederiksenb. 1886DKnot in their usual nameDanish botanical illustrator
- Dorthea Josefa Marie Rugsethb. 1891NONorwegian missionary
- Dorthea Hysingb. 1957NONorwegian writer and art historian
- Dorthea Birkedal Andersenb. 1957screenwriter
- Dorthea Olsenb. 1958badminton player
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Dorthea?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɔɹðiə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Dorthea mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Dorthea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,310 people named Dorthea in 2020, about 1 in 254 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorthea compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Dorthea is the 716th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
- Is Dorthea a male or female name?
- Dorthea 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 Dorthea?
- In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dorothea and Dorthy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dorthea have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Dorthea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorthea.
- Where is Dorthea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dorthea is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dortheaThe 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, “Dorthea” — the 716th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.