Doroteja

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/d̪orot̪eja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Doroteja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1383. From Ancient Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa), from δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + θεός (theós, “god”). Cognate with English Dorothy and Dorothea.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 5K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.6K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 29K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Doroteja itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,409 named Doroteia, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DorotejaLatin(measured from records)
ДоротеяCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Доротея in BG Bulgaria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Doroteja: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Doroteja
  1. Ancient GreekΔωροθέαDōrothéa(measured from records)
  2. Ancient Greek rootδῶρονdôron“gift”(measured from records)

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1383. From Ancient Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa), from δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + θεός (theós, “god”). Cognate with English Dorothy and Dorothea.

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Doroteja counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Doroteja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—3,409as Doroteia1 in 62K4.8K——
SI Slovenia#3531,3061 in 1.6K1.3KDoroteja27
HR Croatia#5418481 in 5K848Doroteja43
BG Bulgaria—≈760 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Доротея25
RS Serbia—≈250 est.≈1 in 29K—Doroteja19
MK North Macedonia—49as Доротеја1 in 43K49—1

3,409 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Doroteja is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Dorotėja

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Dorotėja

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Doroteja is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, a female given name from Ancient Greek

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Dace Akmentiņa, b. 1858Dorca Benedikt Kralj, b. 1913Dora Maček, b. 1936Doroteja Rebec, b. 1966

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Doroteja,Hi Doroteja, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Doroteja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.4K#154
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.4K#151
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111.4K#156
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.4K#148
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.4K#156
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.4K#157
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.4K#158
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.4K#162
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.4K#160
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.4K#164
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20181.4K#165
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20191.4K#168

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Doroteja mean, and where does it come from?
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1383. From Ancient Greek Δωροθέα (Dōrothéa), from δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + θεός (theós, “god”). Cognate with English Dorothy and Dorothea. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Doroteja have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Doroteia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Doroteja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Doroteja is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Doroteja?
A machine transcription gives /d̪orot̪eja/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Doroteja a male or female name?
Doroteja is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Doroteja?
In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Doreen and Dee are forms of the same name in other languages; Dora and Teja are recorded short or pet forms.
How common is the name Doroteja?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,306 people named Doroteja in 2025, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
How common is Doroteja compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Doroteja is the 353rd most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Doroteja” — the 353rd most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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