Dore

Where Dore comes 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. Sometimes influenced or directly from the noun door. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Doghair (“descendant of Doghar”), a byname meaning "sadness" (compare dubhghrá, from dubh + grá). * As a French surname, from Old French doré (“golden”). Compare Dorais. * As a Hungarian surname, from the adjective dőre (“stupid, useless”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Dore
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1929
    First appearance
    #4,570 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Peak, #3,489
    12 babies named Dore — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,009.
  4. 1996
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Isidore.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.