In the world, Dorrance (Dorrance 
) is a rare principally male, but very infrequently female given name. The first name Dorrance is characteristic of Northern America, particularly the United States, where it is a very rare principally male, but scarcely feminine name. More prevalently, Dorrance is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Dorrance | United Kingdom, Canada, France, New Zealand, United States |
| harvie james dorrance Canadian politician, CA (b. 1898) |
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| ward allison dorrance writer and college professor (1904-1996), US (b. 1904) |
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| lewis dorrance US (b. 1950) |
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