Dôr

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dôr is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰ.

  • PLPoland1 in 195K(measured from records)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 640Kfew records
  • USUnited States1 in 830K

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.

United States (measured from records)

401 people, 2020

Record sources
13 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dor in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia.

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)
Derivation of Dôr: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dôr
  1. Middle Englishdorre(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishdora“humming insect”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*dorō(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*durô“bumblebee“bumblebee, humming insect”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰer-“bee“bee, hornet, drone”(measured from records)

From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰrēn- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English drān (“drone”). More at drone.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dôr 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 Dôr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4011 in 830K2K—7
PL Poland1961 in 195K174——
TN Tunisia≈120 est.≈1 in 100K—Dor4
DZ Algeria≈73 est.≈1 in 638K—Dor7
CZ Czechia61 in 1.8M6——
FI Finland51 in 1.1M16——

401 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Dôr is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name21 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dor, D'Or, D’Or, D'Õr, Dõr

  • French given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, Morocco, Tunisia

    Also written D'Or, Dor, D’Or, D-Or, D'Õr

1 further group 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Dôr is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In csb, gift,

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, door

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dôr mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰ… Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition and 1 other source.
Is Dôr a male or female name?
Dôr 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.
In which country does Dôr have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 401 people named Dôr, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Dôr?
In the United States, the national register counted 401 people named Dôr in 2020, about 1 in 830 thousand residents.

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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, “Dôr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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