Dori
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Doro (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/doɾi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Dori is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Austria it is the 72nd most common given name. Dori is also written דוריס in Hebrew, โดร in Thai and 도리스 in Korean (Hangul).
- INIndia≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 270as Doris
- DEGermany≈1 in 440as Doris
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dori itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #475 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named Doris, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dori in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew, Thai and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Doris in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 7 more.
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.
How to pronounce Dori
- Spanish:/doɾi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma plural de Doro
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dori 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #369 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Doris | 83 |
| DE Germany | #151 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 435 | — | Doris | 222 |
| US United States | #211 | 174,013as Doris | 1 in 1.9K | 173K | Doris | 493 |
| GB United Kingdom | #239 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Doris | 193 |
| CA Canada | #232 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2 | Doris | 207 |
| AT Austria | #72 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 270 | 2.9K | Doris | 138 |
| IN India | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 1.9K | Doris | 53 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 16,843as Doris | 1 in 1K | 17K | Doris | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | #124 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 558 | 24 | Doris | 110 |
| SG Singapore | #95 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 763 | — | 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Dori is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latin: beloved (short form of Adora)
as a nameAfrican Names
In Indonesian, dory (any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to want, to wish (to feel a need for)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, yet, even so, inspite of
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, inflection of dorare:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Dori Ghezzib. 1946ITItalian singer (born 1946)
- Dori Piersonb. 1948USAmerican screenwriter
- Dori Whitakerb. 1967USAmerican actress (1967- )
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)Evidence
(measured from records)65 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dori mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Doro Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Is Dori a male or female name?
- Dori is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- How do you pronounce Dori?
- In Spanish /doɾi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Dori?
- Mondonomo estimates about 196 thousand people named Doris in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dori?
- 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 Dori compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Dori is the 369th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dori?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doriThe 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, “Dori” — the 369th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.