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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 |
German: from the name of Saint Veit (Latin Vitus), patron saint against fire. In many cases this is an altered spelling of the variant Veith, written thus to preserve the German pronunciation of th as t.
| 11,331st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Dorah, Dorae, Doray, Dorai, Dori, Doraa, Dorie, Dory, Dorrie, Doria
Veith, Veitch, Voit, Veitenheimer, Vaitai, Viita, Veitia, Vette, Veitz, Veitengruber
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