Dortha

Dortha is an English given name that arose as a phonetic spelling variant of Dortha's parent form Dorothy, itself derived from the Greek Dorothea, composed of the elements doron meaning gift and theos meaning god, yielding the sense gift of God. The name follows a pattern of colloquial respelling that was particularly common in the American South and Midwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Related forms include Dorothy, Dorothea, Dorthea, and Dotha.