Given name
Dorthe
“a gift of God”
In Danish use, Dorthe has a related form in Dorothy. One Greek interpretation is “a gift of God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Danish use, Dorthe has a related form in Dorothy. One Greek interpretation is “a gift of God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In Danish use, Dorthe has a related form in Dorothy. An origin associated with Dorothy is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dorthe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 36
- 0 boys · 36 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 8 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 girls is 5 in 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 115 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dorthe’s family of names
In Danish usage, Dorthe has a related form in Dorothy. In Danish usage, Dorthe has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dorothy. In Danish usage, Dorthe has a related form in Dorthea.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Dorthe
- Dorthe NorsDanish writerborn 1970
- Dorthe HolmDanish female curlerborn 1972
- Dorthe KolloDanish singerborn 1947
- Dorthe Dahl-JensenDanish geophysicist and glaciologistborn 1958
- Dorthe AndersenDanish singer, musician and presenterborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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