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Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish
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
See also Doreen, Dorella, Doria, Dorina, Tôra
Male
Doruson
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Female
Dorudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see DOR (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Dora
|
Genitive: |
Doras
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Dora
|
Accusative: |
Doru
|
Dative: |
Doru
|
Genitive: |
Doru
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Dora
|
Genitive: |
Doran
|
Partitive: |
Doraa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Dora
|
Genitive: |
Doras
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Dora
|
Genitive: |
Doras
|
Name Day
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
6 February
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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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[13] |
|
353 |
676 |
351 |
674 |
2 |
2 |
Denmark[14] |
|
597 |
n.a. |
596 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Greenland[15] |
|
38 |
352 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[16] |
|
n.a. |
348 |
n.a. |
348 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[17] |
|
3 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1890 https://riksarkivet.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no