# Dorsey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dorsey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,228 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,411 / 817 (13% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 12 | 4,568 |
| 1972 | 8 | 6,100 |
| 1973 | 6 | 7,687 |
| 1974 | 6 | 7,958 |
| 1975 | 6 | 8,269 |
| 1976 | 5 | 9,693 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,181 |
| 1979 | 9 | 6,859 |
| 1981 | 7 | 8,355 |
| 1982 | 5 | 10,938 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,345 |
| 1985 | 5 | 11,125 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,815 |
| 1993 | 5 | 14,116 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,220 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | 7,073 |
| 2002 | 13 | 5,489 |
| 2003 | 14 | 5,347 |
| 2004 | 11 | 6,662 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,936 |
| 2006 | 7 | 9,848 |
| 2007 | 11 | 7,226 |
| 2008 | 12 | 6,863 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,383 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,795 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,078 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,090 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,718 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,125 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,672 |

## People named Dorsey

- Dorsey Wright, American actor
- Dorsey Burnette, American rockabilly musician (1932–1979)
- Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpeter (1911-1991)
- C.J. Harris, American basketball player (born 1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.