Doris
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Greek; from the sea; also a Greek sea goddess
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɒɹɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Doris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Austria it is the 72nd most common given name.
- ATAustria≈1 in 397(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 645
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 851
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #475 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 397 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
From Greek Doris, name of a region and mythological figure
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Doris is read(measured from records)
Doris is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English67%
Greek; from the sea; also a Greek sea goddess
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
The daughter of Oceanus, who married Nereus and bore fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
mother of Nereids; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Doris in Spanish.
- German6.5%
a female given name from English, popular in the mid-twentieth century
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Doris 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 882 | — | Doris | 55 |
| US United States | #211 | 174,013 | 1 in 1.9K | 173K | Doris | 493 |
| NG Nigeria | #369 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Doris | 83 |
| DE Germany | #151 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 645 | — | Doris | 222 |
| GB United Kingdom | #239 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Doris | 193 |
| AT Austria | #72 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 397 | 2.9K | Doris | 138 |
| CH Switzerland | #124 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 851 | 24 | Doris | 110 |
| SG Singapore | #95 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 889 | — | Doris | 90 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Doris 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 French, From Greek Doris, name of a region and mythological figure
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In grc, Griego; "muchacha doria", procedente de la Dóride.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
- Doris Lloydb. 1896GBBritish actress (1891–1968)
- Doris Lessingb. 1919GBBritish novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)
- Doris Dayb. 1922USAmerican actress and singer (1922–2019)
- Doris Robertsb. 1925USAmerican actress (1925–2016)
- Doris Hartb. 1925USAmerican tennis player (1925–2015)
- Doris Kunstmannb. 1941DEGerman actress
- Doris Matsuib. 1944USAmerican politician (born 1944)
- Doris Dörrieb. 1955DEGerman film director, writer and film producer (born 1955)
- Doris Buresb. 1962ATAustrian politician
- Doris Leuthardb. 1963CHlawyer, politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (2006-2018)
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)
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 131 sources across 67 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 173K | #318 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 2.9K | #1,039 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 515 | #318 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 58 | — |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Doris come from?
- From Greek Doris, name of a region and mythological figure Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Doris a male or female name?
- Doris 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 does the name Doris mean?
- In English, Greek; from the sea; also a Greek sea goddess
- What are other forms of the name Doris?
- In the etymology graph, Dory is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Doris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Doris in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled doris.
- How do you pronounce Doris?
- A machine transcription gives /dɒɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Doris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 174,013 people named Doris in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Doris compared with other names?
- In Austria, Doris is the 72nd most common given name of 26,800 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Doris?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Doris” — the 72nd most common given name in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.