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Meaning & Origins
19th-century coinage, representing a short form of Isidora, Theodora, Dorothy, and any other name containing the Greek word dōron ‘gift’. Wordsworth's daughter (1804–47), christened Dorothy, was always known in adult life as Dora. The name's popularity was enhanced by the character of Dora Spenlow in Dickens's novel David Copperfield (1850).
| 555th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English: 1. occupational name for a soldier armed with a spear, from Middle English spere ‘spear’ + man. 2. from the Middle English, Old English personal name Spereman, of the same origin as the occupational name above.
| 4,364th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Dorah, Dorae, Doray, Dorai, Dori, Doraa, Dorie, Dory, Dorrie, Doria
Spears, Spear, Speaks, Speakman, Speaker, Speas, Speake, Speak, Spearing, Spease
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