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Dorota

More than a quarter of a million Polish women carry it, so you almost certainly know several, though it's given far less often now. From the Greek for "gift of god".

Dorota Pronunciation

Dorota is pronounced do-RO-tah (/dɔˈrɔta/).

Related names
Doroteusz
Alive in 2025
267,279
Newborns 2025
161
National rank
#41
Next name day
6 February
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What Dorota means

Where Dorota comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Dorota comes from the Greek Dorothea, built from dōron, meaning a gift, and theos, meaning god. Polish speakers still gloss it as dar od boga, a gift of god.

Its mirror is Teodora, which sets the same two Greek words in reverse order and reaches the same sense. The shorter Dora trims the name to two syllables and does its everyday work. Saint Dorothea of Caesarea gave the name a fixed place in the calendar, and Polish imieniny for Dorota fall on the sixth of February.

In a school class register, Dorota sits among the older names, plain to any teacher reading down the list. Short. The girl written there as Dorota answers to Dora at recess, and behind both stands the Greek dōron, a gift.

When Dorota celebrates name day

Dorota appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 4 of them as a main name, the first on 6 February.

Next name day
6 February
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 104 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Dorota

1 in 84 women in Poland is named Dorota. 267,279 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #41 among female names.

People with the name Dorota 2019 → 2025
267,279 −4,556 since 2019
2020 271,605 −230
2021 270,924 −681
2022 270,009 −915
2023 269,186 −823
2024 268,289 −897
2025 267,279 −1,010

Dorota's popularity over time

161 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #206 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #41 name among living women, even as it slips to #206 among newborns.

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161 newborns with the name Dorota in 2025
national rank #206 that year

Where parents choose Dorota

Dorota is most popular in Silesian, 49% above the national average (278 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+32%) and Lesser Poland (+12%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Warmian-Masurian, 42% and 27% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Silesian
    +49%
    1 in 819 babies
  • Opole
    +32%
    1 in 922 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +12%
    1 in 1,091 babies
Chosen least
  • Subcarpathian
    −42%
    1 in 2,115 babies
  • Warmian-Masurian
    −27%
    1 in 1,670 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −25%
    1 in 1,630 babies

Dorota as a middle name

Dorota is a first name for 267,279 women in Poland and a middle name for another 133,476, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 19th, between Marta (135,087) and Danuta (129,132).

As a first name
267,279
As a middle name
133,476
first name 67% middle name 33%
Middle-name ranking women

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