Dore'
surname · Latin script
Dore' is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As an English surname, from the noun dore (“kind of bumblebee”). * Also as an English surname, from the placename Dorr in Derbyshire or Herefordshire; see Dorr.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 202(measured from records)
- GNGuinea≈1 in 930
- CACanada≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dore in US United States, CA Canada, DZ Algeria and 1 more and Doré in FR France.
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)* As an English surname, from the noun dore (“kind of bumblebee”). * Also as an English surname, from the placename Dorr in Derbyshire or Herefordshire; see Dorr. Sometimes influenced or directly from the noun door. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Doghair (“descendant of Doghar”), a byname meaning "sadness" (compare dubhghràdh, from dubh + gràdh). * As a French surname, from Old French doré (“golden”). Compare Dorais. * As a Hungarian surname, from the adjective dőre (“stupid, useless”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Where the surname Dore' is found
(measured from records)Dore' 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 929 | 2 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 999 | Doré | 5 |
| US United States | — | 5,075 | 1 in 66K | 5.1K | Dore | 336 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Dore | 48 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Dore | 150 |
| DZ Algeria | #576 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Dore | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 266 | 1 in 202 | 339 | — | 15 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; The page provides a list of the 50 most common surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, published by Apellidos del mundo.; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dore' mean, and where does it come from?
- * As an English surname, from the noun dore (“kind of bumblebee”). * Also as an English surname, from the placename Dorr in Derbyshire or Herefordshire; see Dorr. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dore'?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Dore' in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, United States, Italy and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dore' most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dore' is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 202 people — even though Guinea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dore'?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,075 people named Dore' in 2010, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
- How common is Dore' compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Dore' is the 576th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dore'The 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, “Dore'” — ranked 16th in Guinea (DGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.