Dory
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/dɔːɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dory is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 203K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 18K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dory, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dory 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Dory | 38 |
| US United States | 1,636 | 1 in 203K | 1.4K | Dory | 285 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Dory | 21 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Dory | 83 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Dory | 25 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Dory | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 85 | 1 in 40K | 85 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dory is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, diminutive of Dorothy
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English: pet form of DORA , now seldom used in that function and even less commonly bestowed as an independent given name.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dory Burmeister-Petersenb. 1860DEGerman pianist and music teacher
- Dory Ceib. 1915ITItalian actress (1915-1988)
- Dory Funkb. 1919USAmerican professional wrestler (1919–1973)
- Dory Previnb. 1925USAmerican musician (1925-2012)
- Dory Chamounb. 1931LBLebanese politician
- Dory Dixonb. 1935JMJamaican professional wrestler
- Dory Funk, Jr.b. 1941USAmerican professional wrestler and trainer (1941-2026)
- Camille Dory Chamounb. 1957LBLebanese politician
- Dory Manorb. 1971ILIsraeli poet
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 921 | #26,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 814 | #27,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 810 | #30,781 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Dory mean, and where does it come from?
- A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Dory?
- In the etymology graph, Dora, Dee and Dorothea are forms of the same name in other languages; Doreen, Dorinda and Dorita are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Dorothy and Doris.
- How do you pronounce Dory?
- A machine transcription gives /dɔːɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Dory a male or female name?
- Dory is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Dory have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Dory in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dory.
- How common is the name Dory?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,636 people named Dory in 2020, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doryThe 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, “Dory”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.