Baby name
REVIVING GIRL · GREEK
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 +1 Doris
/DOR · is/
Meaning
“Gift”
From Greek Doris meaning 'gift'. Also the name of a sea nymph and a region of ancient Greece.
How it ages.
Firmly early-to-mid-20th-century, the classic grandmother name of Northern Europe and America.
The cultural moment.
Almost never chosen for babies now; the Doris revival is still a generation away.