Dora

Diminutive of Theodora and Isidora, Greek

"gift"

Dora Origin and Meaning

Variation of Adora

Dora Rank in US Top 1000

# 972 in the US

Dora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1008 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Dora

• 1008 Nameberry 2025
• 939 Unique 2019
• 956 England 2018
• 75 slovenia 2024
• 83 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2024
• 10 Croatia 2024

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Famous People Named Dora

• Dora May Bryan English actress and comedienne
• Dora Gaitskell Baroness Gaitskell, British politician
• Dora Pejačević Croatian composer
• Dora Meeson Australian painter
• Dora Mavor Moore Canadian actress
• Dora Maar (born Henriette Theodora Markovitch) French painter and muse of Picasso
• Dora de Houghton Carrington English painter
• Dora Anastasiou Miss Cyprus 2007
• Dora Altmann German actress
• Dora Countess Russell, British feminist author; wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell
• Dora Petrova Gabe Bulgarian poet
• Theodora "Dora" Bakoyannis Greek politician
• Dorothy "Dora" Wordsworth daughter of poet William Wordsworth

The name Dora in Pop Culture

• Dora Marquez main character in animated series "Dora the Explorer"
• Dora Winifred "D.W." Reed a main character in the Arthur series
• Dora character in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield"
• Dick and Dora main characters in a series of British primary (elementary) school reading textbooks
• 'Doomsday' Dora Petty character on animated series Sparticle Mystery
• Dora Lacey character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton; twin sister Daphne