Dorita
Dorita is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Dorita
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Dorita is a name with a single cultural origin: Spanish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Dorita
Dorita first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1919, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1954: 42 births, good for #1,561 nationwide. About 38% of every Dorita on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Dorita last appeared in the published SSA data in 1979, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 689 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Dorita
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About the name Dorita
Dorita is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1919 and has accumulated 689 births in the dataset. Dorita's peak popularity came in 1954 when it ranked #1,561. Use the chart and map above to compare Dorita's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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