Meaning of name Dora

The name Dora has the following meaning:

This name can be given to both baby boys and girls. It is a unisex name.

As a baby girl name, Dora is currently not a popular baby name in the USA.

The following chart shows the popularity of the name Dora in the USA, over the past 100 years.

The name Dora is very likely a(n) Greek variant of the name Doreen. See other suggested Greek baby names.

You might also like to see the other variants of the name Doreen.

The following names are baby names related to Dora and are suitable names for brothers and sisters of Dora: Boys - Corbett, Harvey, Lafayette, Rusty, Girls - Aimee, Amber, Amiyah, Amya, Antoinette, Belle, Bernadette, Blanche, Carolann, Celine, Chanel, Both genders - Blaise, Chandler, Dabney, Delaney, Desire, Dior

The name Dora is a variant of Doreen. Other popular variants of the name Doreen are: Doireann (Irish), Dora (Greek), Doreena, Dorene, Dorienne, Dorine (English), Dorinna

We think the name Dora should fall under the following style category: French.

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Based on our research, most people would imagine a person with the name Dora to be: A nice, small-town homemaker

In one word, you might describe Dora as a(n) "homely" person.

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