Dorothea

Where Dorothea comes from

See Dorothy.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dorothea
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #421 among girls — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Dorothea Lange born
    American photojournalist
  3. 1912
    Peak, #174
    562 babies named Dorothea — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #452.
  5. 1990
    Dorothea Wierer born
    Italian biathlete and military athlete
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy.
Namesakes
  • Dorothea Lange · American photojournalist, 1895–1965
  • Dorothea Wierer · Italian biathlete and military athlete, born 1990
  • Dorothea Christiane Erxleben · physician, 1715–1762
  • Dorothea of Brandenburg · Queen consort of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 1430–1495
  • Dorothea Dix · American author and social reformer, 1802–1887

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.