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Dorian

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Early 20th century coinage, apparently invented by Oscar Wilde, who used it for the main character in The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1891)

He probably took it from Late Latin Dorianus, from Greek Dorieus, a member of the Greek-speaking people who settled in the Peloponnese in pre-classical times. Dorian would thus be a male form of Doris. [1]

Related Names

Dorian ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Doria

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dorian
Genitive: Dorians
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dorian
Genitive: Dorianin
Partitive: Doriania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dorian
Genitive: Dorians
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dorian
Genitive: Dorians

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 38 people were named Dorian (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %) [3]
  • Dorian Gray, invented by Oscar Wilde, is a dissolute rake who retains unblemished youthful good looks; in the attic of his home is a portrait which does his ageing for him, gradually acquiring all the outward marks of his depravity. [1]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
200 287 6 9 194 278
Denmark Denmark[5]
42
n.a.
 2
n.a.
 40
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 75 0 0
n.a.
 75
Iceland Iceland[7]
8 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
85
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 85
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Dorian (m) Sources: [4][5][8][6]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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