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The first name 
Dottie

Dottie is a female first name.

When two girls called Dottie meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Dottie is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Dottie. In the SmartGenius ranking, Dottie is #2,631 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dottie.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Dottie

Dottie -
a special name with a long history

Dottie is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2005, where the name Dottie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Dottie and were born in the USA in 2005 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Dottie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1944, it ranked on position 412 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Dottie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Happy Birthday - 129 girls named Dottie celebrate their second birthday this year

Even though the popularity of the name Dottie has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 129 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #1,483 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 129 girls named Dottie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Dottie'.

Dottie has 6 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With six letters, the name Dottie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Dottie

If your name is Dottie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Dottie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dottie, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Orange

Tiger

Tiger

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Dottie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Dottie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Dottie

Dottie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Dottie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Dottie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
O
T
T
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Dottie

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

D
O
T
T
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dottie sounds like this: