as a Last Name
- 4,504
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Dore
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from either of two places, one in South Yorkshire (formerly in Derbyshire) and the other near Hereford. The former gets its name from Old English dor ‘door’, used of a pass between hills; the latter from a Celtic river name of the same origin as Dover 1. In some cases, the name may be topographic, from Middle English dore ‘gate’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,504
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Dore per capita
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