Given name & surname
Doroteo
“gift”·“god”
Doroteo is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, and Esperanto.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Doroteo is built from elements meaning “gift” and “god”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Esperanto usage, Doroteo developed from the Latin form Dorothea. In Esperanto usage, Doroteo developed from the Ancient Greek form Δωροθέα.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Doroteo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 692
- 692 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1929
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1929. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,271 as a first name in 2020; 712 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Doroteo’s family of names
In Esperanto usage, Doroteo developed from the Latin form Dorothea. In Esperanto usage, Doroteo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dorothy. In Esperanto usage, Doroteo developed from the Ancient Greek form Δωροθέα.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Doroteo has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Doroteo
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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