Dora

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Old Norse names enging with -dóra (see ÞOR) ^{[1] [2]}

2) Short form of Greek names starting with Dor- or ending with -dor / -dora: Greek δωρον (doron) = 'gift' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

Dora	♀
Dóra	♀
Doran	♂
Dorella	♀

See also Doreen

Combinations

For combinations see DOR (name element)

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 February

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Dora
Accusative:	Doru
Dative:	Doru
Genitive:	Doru

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1805 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		852	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		389	702	1	2
Norway[7]		64	139	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	293	n.a	1
#: 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.

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi