Entry № 2620 · Greek origin

Dora Dora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DOR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Gift (Dora the Explorer; Dora Maar; Freud's Dora)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "gift (dora the explorer; dora maar; freud's dora)".

Dora is from the Greek dōron ("gift") — historically a diminutive of Dorothy or Theodora. Dora in David Copperfield (1850) — Charles Dickens.

Gift (Dora the Explorer; Dora Maar; Freud's Dora) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Δώρα
Transliteration
Dōra
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɔːr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dora stands.

Dora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Doras before her.

Real people
Dora Maar
French photographer and Picasso's muse.
1907 – 1997
Dora Akunyili
Nigerian regulatory official.
1954 – 2014
Ida "Dora" Bauer
Freud's case study.
1882 – 1945
In fiction
Dora the Explorer
Nickelodeon series.
2000

Names connected to Dora.

The number behind Dora.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dora reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.