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The table below indicates the number of times the name Dorothy has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dorothy**
Use of the Name Dorothy for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
3,128	0	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dorothy has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dorothy**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880			139	112
1881			144	109
1882			150	115
1883			137	141
1884			137	163
1885			128	196
1886			122	231
1887			112	272
1888			103	373
1889			102	377
1890			93	458
1891			76	566
1892			79	626
1893			68	822
1894	885	7	58	1,053
1895			57	1,127
1896			46	1,366
1897	974	6	43	1,471
1898			43	1,672
1899	801	8	35	1,687
1900	988	8	26	2,498
1901			22	2,173
1902	954	7	15	2,708
1903	932	7	11	3,079
1904	544	17	10	3,475
1905	758	11	7	3,934
1906	508	20	6	4,322
1907	518	21	6	4,963
1908	594	19	6	5,696
1909	506	26	5	6,243
1910	587	24	4	7,297
1911	533	31	4	8,844
1912	664	41	3	12,610
1913	698	43	3	14,637
1914	839	41	3	18,755
1915	942	44	3	25,145
1916	705	72	3	27,412
1917	822	60	3	28,844
1918	864	59	3	32,032
1919	814	65	3	31,726
1920	752	76	2	36,616
1921	694	88	2	39,080
1922	847	65	2	37,699
1923	676	90	2	39,004
1924	637	103	2	39,998
1925	639	99	2	38,551
1926	565	118	2	36,591
1927	552	124	2	35,996
1928	555	120	3	33,678
1929	535	119	3	31,447
1930	480	155	3	30,374
1931	479	140	3	26,504
1932	562	110	4	24,959
1933	524	117	4	22,028
1934	551	115	5	21,267
1935	528	120	6	19,399
1936	572	102	6	17,654
1937	697	74	8	16,573
1938	595	98	8	16,347
1939	696	73	9	15,169
1940	656	85	12	14,847
1941	732	72	14	14,553
1942	825	62	17	15,056
1943	814	65	19	14,747
1944	935	47	19	13,366
1945	853	54	20	12,329
1946			23	12,778
1947			26	12,737
1948			29	11,299
1949			32	10,419
1950			35	9,573
1951			42	9,035
1952			46	8,629
1953			49	8,138
1954			55	7,798
1955			64	7,240
1956			72	6,872
1957			74	6,404
1958			86	5,534
1959			94	5,237
1960			95	5,070
1961			99	4,734
1962			111	4,068
1963			116	3,795
1964			118	3,538
1965			130	2,963
1966			136	2,665
1967			148	2,317
1968			157	2,099
1969			181	1,782
1970			180	1,804
1971			190	1,627
1972			218	1,275
1973			215	1,176
1974			231	1,104
1975			249	973
1976			240	983
1977			269	933
1978			260	912
1979			272	887
1980			278	896
1981			307	788
1982			298	828
1983			304	760
1984			337	683
1985			332	717
1986			374	624
1987			383	612
1988			396	604
1989			397	623
1990			426	597
1991			487	494
1992			486	507
1993			515	477
1994			554	436
1995			598	375
1996			638	350
1997			690	312
1998			712	310
1999			682	332
2000			747	307
2001			767	310
2002			871	261
2003			835	290
2004			859	281
Totals:		3,128		1,102,334

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dorothy as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Dorothy appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 48 times during the last 125 years.

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