The DOROTHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	894	25845	0	3
United States (1880 census)	252	16261	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+642	-9584	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	115	22538	0	3

Top States for DOROTHY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	86	18698	0.000	3
Iowa	77	3764	0.003	26
Illinois	65	13923	0.001	5
Texas	53	18680	0.000	3
Florida	50	22337	0.000	3
Top States for DOROTHY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	77	3764	0.003	26
South Dakota	8	10606	0.001	11
Wyoming	5	9865	0.001	10
Nebraska	17	10507	0.001	10
Washington DC	5	7480	0.001	9

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DOROTHY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DOROTHY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DOROTHY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DOROTHY by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DOROTHY

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of DOROTHY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	750	83.89
Black/African American	72	8.05
White (Hispanic)	29	3.24
Mixed Race	18	2.01
Asian/Pacific	16	1.79
Native American/Alaskan	9	1.01

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DOROTHY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to DOROTHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOROTHY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.