Dora

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Old Norse names ending with -dóra / -dora (see ÞOR) [1] [2] [3]

2) Short form of Greek names beginning with Dor- or ending with -dor / -dora: Greek δωρον (doron) = 'gift' [1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [3]

Related Names

Doora
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Finish
Dora
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Dóra
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Faroese Icelandic
Dorah Danish Swedish
Doran
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Norwegian Swedish
Dore Danish

See also Doreen, Dorella, Doria, Dorina, Tôra

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Doruson Faroe Islands

Female

Dorudóttir Faroe Islands

Combinations

For combinations see DOR (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dora
Genitive: Doras
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Dora
Accusative: Doru
Dative: Doru
Genitive: Doru
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dora
Genitive: Doran
Partitive: Doraa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dora
Genitive: Doras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dora
Genitive: Doras

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1181 people were named Dora (percentage of first or only given name: 76 %) [12]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[13]
353 676 351 674 2 2
Denmark Denmark[14]
597
n.a.
596
n.a.
1
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
38 352
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[16]
n.a.
348
n.a.
348 0 0
Iceland Iceland[17]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
156
n.a.
156
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dora.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  4. Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1890 https://riksarkivet.se/
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no