Dore
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: nickname from Old English dora ‘humble bee’; first attested John de Dore 1255 PN Wt 240
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈdɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 66K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 202
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Doré in FR France.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname from Old English dora ‘humble bee’; first attested John de Dore 1255 PN Wt 240
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dore is read
(measured from records)Dore is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
nickname from Old English dora ‘humble bee’; first attested John de Dore 1255 PN Wt 240
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
etymology not shown in excerpt; first attested Aluuard Dore 1066 DB (Ess)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A diminutive of the male given name Isidore.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Gustave, French illustrator
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
short form of Dorothy/Dorothea
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- French26%
dorer to gild, LL deaurare, from aurum gold), denoting either a goldsmith or someone with bright golden hair. Cogns.: Prov.: Dorat, Daurat. Eng. (Norman): Doree, Dorey. Sp.: Dorado. Port.: Dourado.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dore counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 999 | Doré | 5 |
| US United States | — | 5,075 | 1 in 66K | 5.1K | Dore | 336 |
| DZ Algeria | #576 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Dore | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Dore | 48 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Dore | 150 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 266 | 1 in 202 | 339 | — | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; The page provides a list of the 50 most common surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, published by Apellidos del mundo.; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Richard Doreb. 1749AUAustralian judge
- Armand Doréb. 1824FRFrench painter (1824-1886)
- Adrienne Doreb. 1910USAmerican model, beauty pageant winner (1907-1992)
- Ronald P. Doreb. 1925GBBritish sociologist (1925-2018)
- David Doreb. 1940CAfigure skater and official
- Ann McLaughlin Korologosb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1941–2023)
- Valerie Doreb. 1964ITItalian singer
- Jimmy Doreb. 1965USAmerican comedian and political commentator (born 1965)
- Jennifer Doreb. 1971USAmerican rower
- Jon Doreb. 1975CACanadian comedian and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.9K | #6,353 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,766 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 999 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 266 | #32 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #16 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dore mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Old English dora ‘humble bee’; first attested John de Dore 1255 PN Wt 240 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dore?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Dore in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dore most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dore is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 202 people — even though Guinea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,075 people named Dore in 2010, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
- How common is Dore compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Dore is the 576th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dore” — the 576th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.