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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/
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