Dora (given name)

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Dora (Greek: Δώρα) is a female name of Greek origin, being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea (Dorothy) and Theodora (masculine Theodore),^[1]^[2] meaning "gift" or in its full form "god's gift", from δῶρον, doron, "gift"^[3] + θεός, theos, "god".^[4] The name Dora can also be a short form of Isadora (Isidora). Doreen, Dorian, and Dorinda are other examples of names from the same root form.^[1]

The earliest form of the word doron is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀈𐀨, dora, meaning "gifts", written in the Linear B syllabic script, but it is not an anthroponym, it is only the plural (δῶρα) of said word;^[5] on the other hand, the names Theodora and Amphidora are attested in Linear B as 𐀳𐀃𐀈𐀨, te-o-do-ra, and 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀨, a-pi-do-ra, respectively. The masculine counterpart of the latter, i.e. Amphidoros, is also found: 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀫, a-pi-do-ro.^[6]

In Albanian, dora means "hand". In Russian, Dora can be a diminutive of the male first name Agafodor.^[7]

People

Dora Acuña (1903–1987), Paraguayan poet, journalist and radio personality
Dora Afi Abotsi (born 1991), Ghanaian weightlifter
Dora Akunyili (1954–2014), Nigerian pharmacist and government official
Dora Alcala, American politician
Dora Alonso (1910–2001), Cuban journalist and writer
Dora Altbir (born 1961), Chilean physicist
Dora Altmann (1881–1971), German actress
Dora Anastasiou (born 1988), Cypriot beauty queen
Dora E. Angelaki, neuroscientist
Dóra Antal (born 1993), Hungarian water polo player
Dora Apel (born 1952), American author and academic
Dora Sandoe Bachman (1869–1930), American lawyer
Dora Bakoyannis (born 1954), Greek politician
Dora Baret (born 1940), Argentine actress
Dora Barilla, American health care strategist
Dora Barrancos (born 1940), Argentine academic and politician
Dora Barton (1880–1966), English actress
Dora Isabel Baudinet (1883–1945), Australian nurse
Dora Beedham née Spong (1879–1969), British nurse and suffragette
Dora de Beer (1891–1982), New Zealand ethnologist and mountain climber
Dora Beets (1812–1864), Dutch writer
Dora Benjamin (1901–1946), German psychologist and economist
Dora Beregi (1915–2011), British table tennis player
Dora Bianka (c. 1895–1979), Polish-born French painter, illustrator
Dora Billington (1890–1968), English studio potter
Dora Biro, behavioral biologist
Dora Birtles (1903–1992), Australian writer
Dóra S. Bjarnason (1947–2020), Icelandic academic
Dóra Bodonyi (born 1993), Hungarian canoeist
Dora Boneva (1936–2021), Bulgarian painter
Dora Boothby (1881–1970), English badminton and tennis player
Dora Bouchoucha, Tunisian film producer
Dora Boyd de Pérez Balladares (born 1948), Panamanian First Lady
Dora Bria (1958–2008), Brazilian windsurfer
Dora Bright (1863–1951), English composer and pianist
Dora Brilliant (1880–1907), Ukrainian socialist revolutionary
Dora Bromberger (1881–1942), German painter
Dora Bryan (1923–2014), British actress
Dora Budor (born 1985), Croatian artist
Dora Madison Burge (born 1990), American actress
Dora Byamukama, Ugandan politician
Dora Cadavid (1937–2022), Colombian actress
Dora Carrington (1893–1932), British painter
Dora Castanheira (born 1960), Brazilian volleyball player
Dora Chamberlain (1928–2016), Martin Beck Theatre treasurer
Dora Chapman (1911–1995), Australian artist
Dora Chatterjee, Indian physician
Dora Chung Zane (1904–1991), American social worker
Dora Clarke, British sculptor and wood carver
Dora Cojocaru (born 1963), Romanian composer
Dora Colebrook, doctor and bacteriologist
Dora Colvin, American truck driver
Dora Corty-Mönkemeyer (1890–1970), German painter
Dora Cosens (1894–1945), pioneering female architect
Dora L. Costa, American economist
Dóra Csabai (born 1989), Hungarian water polo player
Dora Curtis (1873–1920), American artist
Dóra Czigány (born 1992), Hungarian water polo player
Dóra Danics (born 1986), Hungarian singer
Dóra Dávid (born 1985), Hungarian politician
Dora De Larios (1933–2018), American ceramist and sculptor
Dora De Winton (1874–?), British actress
Dóra Deáki (born 1991), Hungarian handball player
Dora Dean (1872–1949), American vaudeville dancer and entertainer
Dora Deliyska, Bulgarian concert pianist
Dora Diamant (1898–1952), Polish teacher and actress, lover of Franz Kafka
Dora Annie Dickens (1850–1851), infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens
Dora Djilianova (born 1976), Bulgarian tennis player
Dora Doll (1922–2015), French actress
Dora Dolz (1941–2008), Spanish Dutch artist
Dora Draganova (born 1946), Bulgarian composer
Dora Drake, 21st-century American politician
Dora Duby (1901–1998), American dancer
Dora Dueck, Canadian writer
Dora Dumbuya, Christian evangelist preacher from Sierra Leonean
Dora Duncker (1855–1916), German writer and theatre critic
Dóra Dúró (born 1987), Hungarian politician
Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh, Ghanaian-English professor
Dora Emdin (1912–1945), English table tennis player
Dora Epstein-Jones, historian and architecture
Dora Erway (1889–1976), American artist and home economist
Dora Finch (1877–1943), British matron
Dora Gabe (1886–1983), Bulgarian Jewish poet
Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (1901–1989), Labour Party politician and life peer
Dora Gález, Argentine actress and vedette
Dora Elvira García González, Mexican philosopher
Dora García (born 1965), Spanish artist
Dora Gardner (1912–1994), English athlete
Dora Gerson (1899–1943), German actress
Dora Gibbs (1910–2008), British swimmer
Dora Goldstein (1922–2011), pharmacologist and professor
Dora Gordine (1895–1991), Estonian-British artist
Dora Gorman (born 1993), Irish footballer
Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
Dora van der Groen (1927–2015), Belgian actress
Dóra Győrffy (born 1978), Hungarian high jumper
Dora Jane Hamblin (1920–1993), American journalist
Dora Hand (c. 1844–1878), American dance hall singer in Dodge City, Kansas
Dora Heldt (born 1961), German writer
Dora Henninges Heinsohn (1861–1900), American opera singer
Dora Hernández (born 1948), Mexican diver
Dora Heyenn (born 1949), German politician
Dora Hitz (1856–1924), German painter
Dora Holzhandler (1928–2015), British painter
Dora Honnywill (1870–1959), British archer
Dóra Hornyák (born 1992), Hungarian handball player
Dora Ilse (1898–1979), German entomologist
Dora Irizarry (born 1955), Puerto Rican judge
Dora d'Istria (1828–1888), Romanian-Albanian writer
Dóra Ivanics (born 1994), Hungarian handball player
Dora Jacobsohn (1908–1983), German-Swedish physiologist and endocrinologist
Dora Jane Janson (1916–2002), American art historian
Dora Jar (born 1996), American bedroom pop musician
Dora Jelínková (1949–2007), Czech volleyball player
Dora Jemaa-Amirouche (born 1985), French hurdler
Dora Herbert Jones (1890–1974), Welsh administrator and singer
Dora Justiniano de la Rocha (1925–2016), Bolivian linguist, educator and poet
Dora Kaiser (1892–1972), Austrian actress
Dora Kalaus (born 1996), Croatian handball player
Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), Austrian photographer
Dora Kaminsky (1909–1977), American painter
Dora Keen (1871–1963), American mountain climber
Dora Wheeler Keith (1856–1940), American painter
Dóra Keresztes (born 1953), Hungarian artist
Dora Khayatt (1912–1986), Egyptian-born American painter
Dora Juárez Kiczkovsky, Mexican singer and filmmaker
Dóra Kisteleki (born 1983), Hungarian water polo player
Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), German painter
Dora Komar (1914–2006), Austrian dancer, actress and soprano
Dora Kötél (born 1988), Hungarian volleyball player
Dora Kotzee, South African politician
Dora Krsnik (born 1992), Croatian handball player
Dora Krstulović (born 1981), Croatian tennis player
Dora Kyriakou (born 1967), Cypriot sprinter
Dora Labbette (1898–1984), British opera singer
Dóra María Lárusdóttir (born 1985), Icelandic footballer
Dora Fugh Lee, Chinese-American painter, illustrator, and sculptor
Dóra Leimeter (born 1996), Hungarian water polo player
Dora Levy Mossanen (born 1945), American author
Dora Lewis (1862–1928), American suffragist
Dora Lindsay, Scottish comedian
Dóra Lőwy (born 1977), Hungarian handball player
Dóra Lucz (born 1994), Hungarian canoeist
Dora Lush (1910–1943), Australian bacteriologist
Dora Luz (1918–2018), Mexican singer
Dora Maar (1907–1997), French model and photographer
Dora Maclean (1892–1978), Australian horse-breeder
Dóra Madarász (born 1993), Hungarian table tennis player
Dora Maldonado (born 1970), Honduran judoka
Dora Malech (born 1981), American poet
Dora María (1933–2023), Mexican singer
Dora Marsden (1882–1960), English suffragette and editor
Dora Martínez Valero (born 1976), Mexican politician
Dóra Maurer (born 1937), Hungarian artist
Dora Mayer (1868–1959), German-born activist and essayist on Peruvian topics
Dora Mazzone (born 1966), Venezuelan actress
Dora Mbanya (born 1956), Cameroonian professor of Hematology
Dora McGrath, American politician
Dóra Medgyessy (born 1986), Hungarian basketball player
Dora Meeson (1869–1955), Australian artist
Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma (1918–2001), Dutch writer
Dora Melegari (1849–1924), Swiss writer
Dora Metcalf (1892–1982), Anglo-Irish entrepreneur, engineer and mathematician
Dora Richards Miller, (1842–1914), Danish West Indies-born American author and educator
Dora Mills Adams (1874–1943), American film actress
Dora Modestou (born 1988), Cypriot footballer
Dóra Molnár (born 2006), Hungarian swimmer
Dora Montefiore (1851–1933), English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet and autobiographer
Dora Kim Moon (1876–1971), Korean-American activist
Dora Mavor Moore (1888–1979), Canadian actress
Dora Emilia Mora de Retana (1939–2001), Costa Rican botanist
Dora Moroni (born 1956), Italian singer
Dora Louise Murdoch (1857–1933), American artist
Dora Musielak, Mexican-American aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author
Dora Mwima, Ugandan beauty pageant contestant
Dora Nascimento (born 1967), Brazilian geographer and politician
Dora Noyce, Scottish brothel keeper
Dora Moono Nyambe (1992–2024), Zambian humanitarian and TikToker
Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge (1869–1948), Australian painter, sculptor, and medallist
Dóra Ólafsdóttir (1912–2022), Icelandic supercentenarian
Dora Olivo (born 1943), American politician
Dora Opoku (1948–2010), Ghanaian educationist
Dora Panofsky (1885–1965), German-American art historian
Dóra Papp (born 1991), Hungarian footballer
Dóra Pásztory (born 1984), Hungarian Paralympic swimmer
Dora Patzkowski, Cherokee Nation politician
Dora Pavel (born 1946), Romanian novelist
Dora de Pedery-Hunt (1913–2008), Hungarian-Canadian medallist
Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), Croatian composer
Dora de Phillippe (1877 – post-1931), French opera soprano
Dora Pinkham (1891–1941), American politician
Dora Polić (born 1971), Croatian actress
Dora Postigo (born 2004), Spanish singer
D. J. Potter (1915–1987), Australian children's author
Dora Puelma (1898–1972), Chilean artist
Dora Rangelova (born 1967), Bulgarian tennis player
Dora Knowlton Ranous (1859–1916), American actress, author
Dora Ratjen, birth name of Heinrich Ratjen (1918–2008), German high jumper who competed as a woman in the 1936 Olympics, but was later found to be male and/or intersex
Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto (1976/1977–2009), Salvadoran anti-mining activist
Dora Richardson (1919–1998), British organic chemist
Dora Richter (1892–1966), German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery
Dora Riedel (1906–1982), Chilean architect
Dora Rosetti (1908–1989), Greek doctor and writer
Dora Russell (disambiguation)
Dora Jessie Saint (1913–2012), English novelist
Dora Sánchez (1949–2011), Argentine politician
Dora Sanders Carney, Canadian journalist
Dora Schönemann, German swimmer
Dora E. Schoonmaker (1851–1934), American missionary
Dora Serle (1875–1968), Australian artist
Dora Adele Shoemaker (1873–1962), American educator, writer
Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), Irish poet and sculptor
Dora Marie Sigar (1919–2008), Indonesian nurse, activist and homemaker
Dora Siliya (born 1970), Zambian politician
Dora Söderberg (1899–1990), Swedish actress
Dora Staudinger (1886–1964), German-Swiss religious socialist and publicist
Dóra Stefánsdóttir (born 1985), Icelandic footballer
Dora Stock (1759–1832), German artist
Dora von Stockert-Meynert (1870–1947), Austrian writer, poet and playwright
Dora Hall Stockman (1872–1948), American politician
Dora Stratou (1903–1988), Greek dancer and folklorist
Dora Dougherty Strother (1921–2013), American aviator
Dóra Süle (born 1998), Hungarian footballer
Dora M. Sweeney (1907–2001), American secretary and politician
Dora Sweetapple (1872–1972), Australian nurse
Dora Szabados (born 2006), Hungarian rhythmic gymnast
Dora Talamante Lemas (born 1965), Mexican politician
Dora Tamana (1901–1983), South African anti-apartheid activist
Dora Taylor, South African woman writer and propagandist
Dora Tchakounté (born 1995), French weightlifter
Dora María Téllez (born 1955), Nicaraguan revolutionary
Dora Thewlis (1890–1976), British suffragette
Dora E. Thompson (1876–1954), American nurse
Dora Trigueras (born 1982), Mexican politician
Dora Tulloch (1878–1945), English stage performer, actor and playwright
Dora Turner (1888–1953), Australian educator
Dóra Turóczi (born 1990), Hungarian former competitive ice dancer
Dora Valesca Becker (1870–1958), American musician
Dora Varella (born 2001), Brazilian skateboarder
Dora Vasconcellos (1910–1973), Brazilian writer and diplomat
Dora Vass (born 1991), Hungarian rhythmic gymnast
Dora Varona (1932–2018), Cuban-Peruvian poet, narrator, and missionary
Dora Wahlroos (1870–1947), Finnish painter
Dora Wasserman (1919–2003), Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright and theater director
Dora Werzberg (1920–2020), French nurse
Dora V. Wheelock (1847–1923), American activist and writer
Dora Wilcox (1873–1953), New Zealand-born Australian poet and playwright
Dora Wiley (1853–1924), American actress
Dora Wilson (1883–1946), British-born Australian artist
Dora Wordsworth (1804–1847), daughter of William Wordsworth
Dora Yates (1879–1974), bibliographer and Romani scholar
Dora Zaslavsky (1904–1987), American pianist
Dóra Zeller (born 1995), Hungarian footballer

Fictional characters

Dora, protagonist of the Dora the Explorer franchise
Dora the Female Explorer, eponymous subject of a song on the 1971 album Stackridge
Dora Bianchi, in the webcomic Questionable Content
Dora Orefice, in the Life Is Beautiful movie
Dora Winifred "D.W." Read, in the Arthur book and television series
Dora Spenlow, in the Dickens novel David Copperfield

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b Campbell, Mike (16 November 2019). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Doreen". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
^ Campbell, Mike (25 April 2021). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Dora". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
^ δῶρον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
^ θεός in Liddell and Scott.
^ "The Linear B word do-ra". Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of ancient languages. Raymoure, K.A. "do-ra-qe". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
^ "te-o-do-ra-qe". Raymoure, K.A. "a-pi-do-ra". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.
^ Superanskaya, p. 24

Sources

А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-8112-1399-9

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[btndoreen-1] Campbell, Mike (16 November 2019). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Doreen". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

[btndora-2] Campbell, Mike (25 April 2021). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Dora". Behind the Name. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

[3] δῶρον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.

[4] θεός in Liddell and Scott.

[5] "The Linear B word do-ra". Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of ancient languages. Raymoure, K.A. "do-ra-qe". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.

[6] "te-o-do-ra-qe". Raymoure, K.A. "a-pi-do-ra". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean.

[Superanskaya1-7] Superanskaya, p. 24

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