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Doris

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Greek Δωρις (Doris) = 'Dorian woman' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

The Dorians were a Greek tribe, and their name is probably related to the word δωρον (doron) = 'gift' [10] [3] [6]

2) Pet form of Dorothea [2] [5]

Related Names

Daris ♀
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 Swedish
Doris ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Dóris ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Dorris ♀
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Tuuris ♀
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 Finish

See also Dora, Dorian

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Dorisarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Dorisardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Doris
Genitive: Doris'
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Doris
Accusative: Doris
Dative: Doris
Genitive: Dorisar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Doris
Genitive: Doriksen
Partitive: Dorista
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Doris
Accusative: Doris
Dative: Doris
Genitive: Dorisar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Doris
Genitive: Doris'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Doris
Genitive: Doris' / Doris

Name Days

Norway Norway

7 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

15 January

Sweden Sweden

6 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 13208 people were named Doris (percentage of first or only given name: 71 %) [17]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[18]
4312 8284 4309 8279 3 5
Denmark Denmark[19]
2346
n.a.
 2346
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[20]
n.a.
 2293
n.a.
 2293 0 0
Iceland Iceland[21]
8 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[22]
5 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[23]
455
n.a.
 455
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 Doris (f) Sources: [18][19][23][20]


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  10. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  11. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  13. ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  14. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  15. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  21. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  22. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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