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Dorothy is a feminine given name. It is the English vernacular form of the Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift", from δῶρον (dōron), "gift" + θεός (theós), "god". It has been in use since the 1400s. Although much less common, there are also male equivalents in English such as Dory, from the Greek masculine Δωρόθεος (Dōrótheos). Dorofei is a rarely used Russian male version of the name. The given names Theodore and Theodora are derived from the same two Greek root words as Dorothy, albeit reversed in order.
The name grew in use among Christians due to popular legends surrounding Saint Dorothy of Caeserea. The name was at one time viewed as the English equivalent of the etymologically unrelated Russian name Daria or its diminutive Dasha.
Traditional English diminutives include, among others, Do, Dodi, Dodie, Doe, Doll, Dolley, Dollie, Dolly, Dora, Dori, Dorie, Doro, Dory, Dot, Dottie, Dotty, Tea, Thea, and Tia. Dorothy, with the nickname Doll or Dolly, was quite popular from 1450 to 1570 in England. Dorothy or the variant Dorothea, also with the nicknames Doll or Dolly, was also well used between 1750 and 1820.
There are also many variants of the name in other languages.
Dorothy was a less common variant of Dorothea until it became more common and one of the top 10 most popular names for girls in the United States between 1904 and 1940. The name remained among the top 100 most popular names for American girls until 1961. It briefly left the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States in 2007 but returned in 2011 and has since increased in popularity. In 2023, it ranked 466th among the most used names for newborn girls in the United States, with 658 girls given the name in that year. Variant Dorothea is in occasional use in the United States, where 61 girls were given the name in 2023.
Notable people
= Arts
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Dorothy Allison (1949–2024), American writer
Dorothy Annan (1900–1983), Brazilian-British painter, potter and muralist
Dorothy Arnold (1917–1984), American actress
Dorothy Appleby (1906–1990), American actress
Dorothy Bernard (1890–1955), American actress
Dorothy Bowers (1902–1948), British writer
Dorothy Christy/Christie (1906–1977), American actress
Dorothy "Dodie" Clark (born 1995), British singer-songwriter and YouTuber
Dorothy Coburn (1905–1978), American actress
Dorothy Dalton (1893–1972), American actress
Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), American actress
Dorothy Davenport (1895–1977), American actress
Dorothy Dell (1915–1934), American actress
Dorothy Devore (1899–1976), American actress
Dorothy Dunbar (1902–1992), American actress
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001), Scottish historical novelist
Dorothy Dwan (1906–1981), American actress
Dorothy Ellis (1935–2018), American singer
Dorothy Elias-Fahn, American voice actress
Dorothy Catherine Fontana (1939–2019), screenplay writer
Dorothy Garlock (1919–2018), American author
Dorothy Gibson (1889–1946), American actress
Dorothy Gish (1898–1968), American actress
Dorothy Grant, Haida fashion designer
Dorothy Gulliver (1908–1997), American actress
Dorothy Antoinette Handy (1930–2002), American musician and scholar
Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022), American visual artist
Dorothy Janis (1912–2010), American actress
Dorothy Misener Jurney (1909–2002), American journalist
Dorothy Khadem-Missagh (born 1992), Austrian pianist and conductor
Dorothy Kelly (1894–1966), American actress
Dorothy Kilgallen (1913–1965), American journalist and television game show panelist
Dorothy, Lady Pakington (1623–1679), English writer
Dorothy Lamour (1914–1996), American film actress
Dorothy Lee (actress) (1911–1999), American actress-comedian
Dorothy Leigh (died c. 1616), British writer
Dorothy Mackaill (1903–1990), British-American actress
Dorothy Malone (1924–2018), American actress
Dorothy Manning (1919–2012), New Zealand artist
Dorothy McGuire (1916–2001), American actress
Dorothy Miner (1904–1973), American art historian
Dorothy Moskowitz (born 1940), American singer
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American satirist and poet
Dorothy Phillips (1889–1980), American actress
Dorothy Revier (1904–1993), American actress
Dorothy Robertson (died 1979), New Zealand painter
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), English writer
Dorothy Seastrom (1903–1930), American actress
Dorothy Sebastian (1903–1957), American actress
Dorothy Squires (1915–1998), Welsh singer
Dorothy Sterling (1913–2008), American writer
Dorothy Stratten (1960–1980), Canadian Playboy Playmate, model and actress
Dorothy Wall (1894–1942), New Zealand-born author
Dorothy Wang (born 1988), American television personality
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English author, poet and sister of William Wordsworth
= Nobility and royalty
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Dorothy Bentinck (1750–1794), British noblewoman and Duchess of Portland
Dorothy Boyle (1699–1758), English noblewoman and Countess of Burlington and Countess of Cork
Dorothy Montagu (c. 1716/17–1797), British noblewoman and Countess of Sandwich
Dorothy Percy (1564–1619), English noblewoman and Countess of Northumberland
Dorothy Savile (1640–1670), English noblewoman and Viscountess Halifax
Dorothy Sidney (1598–1659), English noblewoman and Countess of Leicester
Dorothy Spencer (1617–1684), English noblewoman and Countess of Sunderland
Dorothy Wellesley (1889–1956), British noblewoman and Duchess of Wellington
Dorothy Wood (1885–1976), British noblewoman and Countess of Halifax
= Politics and activism
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Dorothy Hamilton Brush (1894–1968), American birth control advocate, women's rights advocate and author
Dorothy Cotton (1930–2018), American civil rights activist
Dorothy Davids (1923–2014), American educator, educational services administrator, and a Native American and women's rights activist
Dorothy Day (1897–1980), American journalist and social activist
Dorothy Fraser (1926–2015), New Zealand community activist and local politician
Dorothy Height (1912–2010), African-American civil rights and women's rights activist
Dorothy Kuya (1932–2013), British communist and anti-racist activist
Dorothy Bell Lawrence (1911–1973), New York assemblywoman
Dorothy Lawson (1580–1632), English recusant and Catholic priest harbourer
Dorothy Mabiletsa, South African politician
Dorothy McAulay Martin (born 1937), First Lady of North Carolina
Dorothy Kuhn Oko (1896–1971), librarian and labor unionist
Dorothy H. Rose (1920–2005), New York assemblywoman
Dorothy Scharf (1942–2004), British philanthropist
Dorothy Mae Taylor (1928–2000), African-American politician and civil rights activist
Dorothy Thornhill, Baroness Thornhill (born 1955), British Liberal Democrats politician and the first directly elected mayor of Watford, Hertfordshire
Dorothy von Beroldingen (1915–1999), American lawyer, judge, and political figure
Dorothy Grace Waring (1891–1977), English fascist campaigner and novelist
Dorothy Zellner (born 1938), American human rights activist and feminist
= Science
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Dorothy Adlington Cadbury (1892–1987), British botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury's
Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1898–1980), American obstetrician and civil rights activist
Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968), British archaeologist
Dorothy Hatfield (1940–2024), British aeronautical engineer
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British biochemist and winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1914–2004), African-American surgeon, teacher and politician
Dorothy Okello, Ugandan electrical engineer
Dorothy Otnow Lewis, American psychiatrist
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (1975–present), American astronaut
Dorothy Klenke Nash (1898–1976), American neurosurgeon
Dorothy Olsen (1916–2019), American aircraft pilot and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II
Dorothy Amaury Talbot (1871–1916), British plant collector and ethnographer
Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African American mathematician and human computer who worked for NACA and NASA
Dorothy Wallace, American mathematician and theorist
Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, British microbiologist
= Sport
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Dorothy Becker (1900–1989), American surfer and competitive swimmer
Dorothy Campbell (1883–1945), Scottish golfer
Dorothy Dermody (1909–2012), Irish fencer
Dorothy Hamill (born 1956), American figure skater
Dorothy Kamenshek (1925–2010), American baseball player
Dorothy Lidstone (born 1938), Canadian archer
Dorothy Manley (1927–2021), British sprinter
Dorothy Razzell, British long jumper
Dorothy Scott (born 1957), Jamaican long jumper
Dorothy Shirley (born 1939), British higher jumper
Dorothy Stanley-Turner (1916–1995), British racing driver
Dorothy Swinyard (born 1951), British discus thrower and shot putter
Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920–2014), British high jumper
Dorothy Vest (1919–2013), American tennis player
= Other
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Dorothy Sears Ainsworth (1894–1976), American physical educator
Dorothy Arnold (1885–1910), American socialite who disappeared mysteriously
Dorothy Braxton (1927–2014), the first female journalist from New Zealand to visit Antarctica
Dorothy Eady (1904–1981), British Egyptologist
Dorothy Nneka Ede, Nigerian entrepreneur and sports enthusiast
Dorothy Fletcher (1927–2017), New Zealand historian
Dorothy Edna Genders (1892–1978), Australian Anglican deaconess
Dorothy Hayes (disambiguation)
Dorothy Kazel (1939–1980), American Ursuline religious sister and missionary to El Salvador
Dorothy Bush Koch (born 1959), daughter of United States President George H. W. Bush and sister of President George W. Bush
Dorothy Lawrence (1896–1964), English reporter, secretly posed as a man to become a British soldier during World War I
Dorothy O'Grady (897–1985), the first British woman found guilty of treachery in World War II
Dorothy Peto (1886–1974), first female police superintendent in the UK
Dorothy Sciff (1903–1989), American businesswoman who was the owner and publisher of the New York Post
Dorothy Seymour Mills (1928–2019), American baseball researcher
Dorothy Miner (1936–2008), American lawyer
Dorothy Shea, American diplomat
Dorothy Shea (librarian) (1941–2024), Australian librarian
Dorothy Stang (1931–2005), Catholic nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Dorothy Thompson (1923–2011), British social historian
Dorothy Ann Thrupp (1779–1847), English psalmist, hymnwriter, translator
Dorothy Ufot, Nigerian lawyer
Animals
Dorofei (2004–2014), the male pet cat of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
Fictional characters
Dorothy, a talented archer with low self esteem from the 2002 video game Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
Dorothy, a wheelchair using senior who resides at the Springfield Retirement Castle in animated sitcom series The Simpsons, first appearing in the episode "Lady Bouvier's Lover"
Dorothy, a goldfish owned by Elmo in Sesame Street
Dorothy Albright, a character from the video game series Arcana Heart
Dorothy Catalonia, a character from the Gundam Wing anime series
Dorothy Cramp, a character from the 2001 animated series The Cramp Twins
Dorothy the Dinosaur, a character from Australian children's TV series The Wiggles
Dorothy Gale, the little girl who was blown to the Land of Oz by a cyclone in L. Frank Baum's 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the classic 1939 movie adaptation The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy Hayes, character on American television soap opera One Life to Live
Dorothy Hoyle, character on the British television soap opera Coronation Street
Dorothy "Ace" McShane, a companion of the Seventh Doctor from Doctor Who, played by Sophie Aldred
Dorothy Michaels, alias used by the female impersonator in the 1982 comedy film Tootsie, played by Dustin Hoffman
Dorothy Jane Torkelson, a main character from the Disney Channel show The Torkelsons
Dorothy Williams, a character from the Australian TV series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Dorothy Zbornak, played by Bea Arthur on the long-running TV sitcom The Golden Girls
Doll Tearsheet, also referred to as "Mistress Dorothy", a prostitute in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2
Dory, a forgetful, free-spirited blue tang (paracanthurus) who helps find clownfish Marlin's lost son Nemo in the movie Finding Nemo
Dot Branning, character on the British television soap opera EastEnders
Dot, character from the 2005 film The Quiet
R. Dorothy Wayneright, female android in the anime series The Big O
Dorothy Franks, director of the Rhine Originium Technology Application Section from the 2019 mobile game Arknights
See also
All pages with titles containing Dorothy
Dorothea (disambiguation)
Dorothee (given name)
Dorothy Mae
References
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