Dorsie
Recorded 1900–1964 · United States
Dorsie was most popular in 1923, when 26 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,939 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 645 people named Dorsie.
Dorsie over time
How old is the name Dorsie?
Dorsie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1900, which makes it about 125 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 45 of the 126 years since. It was last recorded in 1964.
How many people are named Dorsie?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 645 American births named Dorsie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 118 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Dorsie in 2025?
Dorsie was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Dorsie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Dorsie is a unisex name — 60.6% of the 645 Americans given it were girls and 39.4% were boys. It changed hands: since 1923 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Dorsie?
Roughly 118 Americans named Dorsie are alive today — 18% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 83 years old, and half are between 76 and 88. That is a narrow band: Dorsie arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org