Dodie

Where Dodie comes from

The dictionaries list Dodie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Dorothy — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,975 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1963
    Peak, #1,233
    79 babies named Dodie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,094.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Dodie hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.