# Dore (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dore/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | “kind of bumblebee”, “descendant of doghar”, “sadness”, “golden”, “stupid”, “useless” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 218 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 20 / 198 (91% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun dore (“kind of bumblebee”). * Also as an English surname, from the placename Dorr in Derbyshire or Herefordshire; see Dorr. Sometimes influenced or directly from the noun door. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Doghair (“descendant of Doghar”), a byname meaning "sadness" (compare dubhghrá, from dubh + grá). * As a French surname, from Old French doré (“golden”). Compare Dorais. * As a Hungarian surname, from the adjective dőre (“stupid, useless”).

## What it means

Dore is grouped under gold.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 11 | 4,069 |
| 1963 | 7 | 5,462 |
| 1964 | 6 | 6,201 |
| 1966 | 8 | 4,981 |
| 1968 | 12 | 4,061 |
| 1969 | 7 | 6,126 |
| 1970 | 5 | 8,322 |
| 1971 | 10 | 5,217 |
| 1972 | 8 | 6,096 |
| 1973 | 9 | 5,695 |
| 1974 | 6 | 7,955 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,175 |
| 1980 | 6 | 9,397 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,723 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,430 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | 3,821 |
| 1951 | 5 | 3,849 |
| 1958 | 5 | 4,104 |
| 1996 | 5 | 9,392 |

## People named Dore

- Dore Gold, American-Israeli political scientist and diplomat ( 1953-2025)
- Dore Ashton, art critic (1928–2017)
- Dore Hoyer, German expressionist dancer (1911-1967)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.