Dorota
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/dɔˈrɔ.ta/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Dorota is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 266,291 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 144(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 2.1K
- CZCzechia1 in 2.9K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- 1 in 144 (inferred from the name graph)
266,291 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Dorota
- Polish:/dɔˈrɔ.ta/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dorota is read
(measured from records)Dorota 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.
- Polish76%
- English12%
Polish form of Dorothy, 'gift of God'
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Dorota 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #48 | 266,291 | 1 in 144 | 266K | Dorota | 215 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 2 | Dorota | 123 |
| CZ Czechia | #899 | 3,698 | 1 in 2.9K | 3.7K | Dorota | 52 |
| US United States | — | 3,175 | 1 in 105K | 3.2K | Dorota | 240 |
| SK Slovakia | #511 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Dorota | 45 |
| NO Norway | — | 674 | 1 in 8.1K | 1.9K | Dorota | 33 |
| IS Iceland | — | 164 | 1 in 2.1K | 164 | — | — |
266,291 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Dorota is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Izabella Scorupcob. 1970PLnot in their usual namePolish-Swedish model, actress and singer
- Dorota Kobielab. 1978PLFilm director and painter
- Dorota Rabczewskab. 1984PLPolish singer
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dorota mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Dorota?
- In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dora and Doreen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dorota?
- In Polish /dɔˈrɔ.ta/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Dorota a male or female name?
- Dorota is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Dorota?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 266 thousand people named Dorota, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorota. After it come Germany, Czechia, United States and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dorota most common?
- Dorota is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 144 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dorota?
- In Poland, the national register counted 266,291 people named Dorota in 2026, about 1 in 144 residents.
- How common is Dorota compared with other names?
- In Poland, Dorota is the 48th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorotaThe 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, “Dorota” — ranked 22nd in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.