Dorine
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French diminutive/variant of Dora or Dorothy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɔʁin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dorine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 3.4K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 4.2K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French diminutive/variant of Dora or Dorothy
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Dorine | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | #639 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Dorine | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 6.3K | Dorine | 258 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Dorine | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,068 | 1 in 8.4K | 2.1K | Dorine | 23 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 6 | Dorine | 52 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)
Dorine is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Type de la servante dévouée aux intérêts de ses maîtres, tout en gardant son franc-parler. Le mot vient du rôle de Dorine, la servante de Mariane, dans le Tartufe de Molière.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, Du grec, « don de Dieu »; évoque un personnage littéraire.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Greek-derived diminutive linked here to « god/gift ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Dorine Bijlb. 1939NLDutch singer
- Dorine van der Kleib. 1940NLDutch photographer and singer (born 1940)
- Anthea Stewartb. 1944ZAnot in their usual namefield hockey player
- Dorine de Vosb. 1948NLDutch artist and designer (born 1948)
- Dorine Lomanb. 1960NLDutch cricketer
- Dorine Delombaerdeb. 1960BEBelgian association football player
- Dorine Wiersmab. 1967NLDutch guitarist
- Dorine Bournetonb. 1974FRFirst disabled aerobatic pilot
- Dorine Chuigouéb. 1988CMassociation football player
- Dorine Mamatab. 1991FRFrench association football player
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 43 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2020 | 6.3K | #2,744 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.1K | #807 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.1K | #1,969 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #15,282 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2008 | 6 | #1,286 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Dorine mean, and where does it come from?
- French diminutive/variant of Dora or Dorothy Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Dorine?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔʁin/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Dorine a male or female name?
- Dorine 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 are other forms of the name Dorine?
- In the etymology graph, Dora, Doreen and Dee are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Dorthy.
- In which country does Dorine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Dorine in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorine.
- How common is the name Dorine?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,068 people named Dorine, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Dorine compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Dorine is the 639th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dorine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dorineThe 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, “Dorine” — the 639th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.