Dorè

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dorè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States 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.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 154K
  • KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 202

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.

United States (measured from records)

5,075 people, 2010

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)

St. Kitts & Nevis

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dore in FR France, US United States, CA Canada.

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”).

Sources 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

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dorè 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.

Where Dorè is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5,0751 in 66K5.1KDore130
GN Guinea—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 7.1K2—11
FR France#537≈1,700 est.≈1 in 40K999Dore257
BR Brazil—8941 in 237K894—1
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—2661 in 202339——
CA Canada—≈250 est.≈1 in 154K—Dore104

5,075 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dorè is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dore, Doré, Dore', D'Ore, Dorê

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Dore, Doré

  • Portuguese surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Italy

    Also written Dore, Doré, Döre, Dóre, Dõre

  • Romanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Dore, Doré, Döre

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Also written Dore, Doré

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dorè under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dorè 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.
In which country does Dorè have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Dorè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dore.
Where is Dorè most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dorè is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 202 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dorè?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,075 people named Dorè in 2010, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
How common is Dorè compared with other names?
In France, Dorè is the 537th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Dorè” — the 537th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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