Dorotea

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Dorothy

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

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

Dorotea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 14K
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,400 people, est.

Sources
83 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Dorothy

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dorotea 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 Dorotea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈6,400 est.≈1 in 17K—Dorotea26
PE Peru—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 8.1K—Dorotea26
TZ Tanzania—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 25K—Dorotea7
HR Croatia—2,2371 in 1.9K2.4K——
IT Italy—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 29K81Dorotea72
SE Sweden—1,5351 in 6.6K1.5K—6
SV El Salvador#977≈420 est.≈1 in 16K—Dorotea7
UY Uruguay#3022341 in 14K234Dorotea11

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Dorotea is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Poland, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Dorothea, Доротеа, Dorotéa, Doroteâ

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dorotéa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dorotéa

  • Swedish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Dorotéa, Dórótea

36 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)

Dorotea is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Don, regalo de los dioses

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Dono di Dio

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Faroese, a female given name, equivalent to English Dorothy

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

0500100015002000Dorothea of Caesarea, b. 279Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, b. 1687Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, b. 1715Frederica of Baden, b. 1781Dorothea Lynde Dix, b. 1802Sophia of Prussia, b. 1870Dorothea Douglass, b. 1878Dorothea Lange, b. 1895Mrs. Max Ernst, b. 1910leader of the free world, b. 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Dorotea,Hi Dorotea, (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 59 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Dorotea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20212.4K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20212.2K#344
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.5K#1,263
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—234—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—232—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020168—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202481#230
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2—
UY UruguayMontevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012)20011—
IT ItalyIl Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020)———

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 Dorotea mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Dorothy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Dorotea have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Dorotea in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorotea.
Where is Dorotea most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dorotea is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Dorotea?
A machine transcription gives /doɾotea/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Dorotea a male or female name?
Dorotea 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 Dorotea?
In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Doreen and Dee are forms of the same name in other languages; Dora, Dorita and Tiia are recorded short or pet forms.
How common is the name Dorotea?
In Croatia, the national register counted 2,237 people named Dorotea in 2021, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Dorotea compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Dorotea is the 302nd most common given name of 12,212 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, “Dorotea” — the 302nd most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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