Dory

Where Dory comes from

The dictionaries list Dory as a given name — a diminutive of the female given names Dorothy and Doris — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,430 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1964
    Peak, #2,040
    34 babies named Dory — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,264.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Dorothy and Doris.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Dory hasn't yet.

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.