Dori

Where Dori comes from

Dori hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    Dori Ghezzi born
    Italian singer
  2. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,665 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1958
    Dori J. Maynard born
    American journalism academic
  4. 1960
    Peak, #705
    209 babies named Dori — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,202.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dori Ghezzi · Italian singer, born 1946
  • Dori J. Maynard · American journalism academic, 1958–2015
  • Dori Spivak · Israeli judge, born 1968
  • Dori Sanders · American writer, born 1934
  • Dori Laub · Israeli psychiatrist, 1937–2018

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.