Dori

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Doris in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 20 more and דוריס in IL Israel, FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dori is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name34K records spelled Dori7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Pakistan

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written দড়ি, Dóri

• a separate given name28K records spelled Dori3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Dóri, Dőri

• Spanish given name27K records spelled Dori16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Dóri, Dorì, Dórí, Dorí, Dörï

• Hebrew given name2.2K records spelled Dori3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Israel, Canada, Spain

  Also written Dóri, Dorí

• French given name2.1K records spelled Dori14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Bani, Dóri, Dorï, Dôri, Bäni

• Arabic given name814 records spelled Dori10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Egypt, Spain

  Also written Dorï, Dõrí, Dörï, Dorî, Ḑorī

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dori is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Latin: beloved (short form of Adora)

  as a name·African Names

• In Indonesian, dory (any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Romanian, to want, to wish (to feel a need for)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In sla-pro, yet, even so, inspite of

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, inflection of dorare:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 86 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Dori Sandersb. 1934USAmerican writer
• Dori Ghezzib. 1946ITItalian singer (born 1946)
• Dori Piersonb. 1948USAmerican screenwriter
• Dori Jones Yangb. 1954USAmerican author and journalist
• Dori J. Maynardb. 1958USAmerican journalism academic
• Dori Berinsteinb. 1960USAmerican film producer
• George Schappellb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican country singer and conjoined twin
• Dori Hillestad Butlerb. 1965USAmerican author of children's books
• Dori Whitakerb. 1967USAmerican actress (1967- )
• Dori Spivakb. 1968ILIsraeli judge

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 502 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dori?

We estimate roughly 212 thousand people bear Dori (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Dori have the most bearers?

Dori is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled doris.

How common is Dori compared with other names?

In Germany, Dori is the 152nd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.

Is Dori a male or female name?

Dori is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Dori mean?

Recorded meaning: forma plural de Doro