Feminine dossier · first seen 1896

Doretha

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Doretha
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1956

Peak rank proxy

198

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1896Peak 19562024

Peak year

1956

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

8,562

Doretha has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1956, when 198 girls were named Doretha.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 8,562 Americans have been named Doretha and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1896.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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