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Doroteja

Female#606 most common in Croatia736 people in Croatia
Meaning:
Gift of God
Origin:
Greek

About the name Doroteja

From Greek Dorothea, from 'doron' (gift) and 'theos' (God).

Name day and nicknames

Name day:
February 6 (sv. Doroteja)

Popularity with newborns

Doroteja has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.

People with this name in Croatia

736 people in Croatia are called Doroteja, according to the 2021 census. That is #606 among all the names in Imenko.

Where the name is found

Doroteja is recorded in 15 of Croatia's 21 counties.

Bjelovarsko-bilogorskaGrad ZagrebKarlovačkaKoprivničko-križevačkaKrapinsko-zagorskaMeđimurskaOsječko-baranjskaPrimorsko-goranskaSisačko-moslavačkaSplitsko-dalmatinskaVaraždinskaVirovitičko-podravskaVukovarsko-srijemskaZadarskaZagrebačka

Characteristics

ReligiousClassicModerately common

Sources

Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.