Dorothy
251
Babies in 2024
+99%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 289
0%
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 Dorothy
Dorothy appears in the official UK girls' name list for 2024, ranked #193 with 251 girls registered in England & Wales.
Dorothy reached its peak in 2021, when 289 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #177 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 251 represents 87% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,104 girls have been officially registered with the name Dorothy in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,465 girls were registered with the name, starting from 126 in 2014 and ending at 251 in 2024.