Dorthy

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English short form of Dorothy [1]

Related Names

Dorthie
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Greenlandic
Dorthy
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Dorti Danish Swedish
Dorty Finish Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dorthy
Genitive: Dorthys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dorthy
Genitive: Dorthyn
Partitive: Dorthya
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dorthy
Genitive: Dorthys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dorthy
Genitive: Dorthys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 318 people were named Dorthy (percentage of first or only given name: 57 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
90 208 90 208 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
23
n.a.
23
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
40
n.a.
40 0 0
Iceland Iceland[8]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
4
n.a.
4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dorthy.


References

  1. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/