Dorothea
46
Babies in 2024
+254%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 46
+44%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Dorothea
Dorothea is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (46) are up 254% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Dorothea reached its peak in 2024, when 46 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #811 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 46 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 444 girls have been officially registered with the name Dorothea in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 331 girls were registered with the name, starting from 13 in 2014 and ending at 46 in 2024.