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dore Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’.
  2. Irish: in County Limerick a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Doghair ‘descendant of Doghar’, a byname meaning ‘sadness’; alternatively, according to MacLysaght, it could be from De Hóir, a name of Norman origin. Outside Limerick it may be from French Doré (see below).
  3. French (Doré): nickname from Old French doré ‘golden’, past participle of dorer ‘to gild’ (Late Latin deaurare, from aurum ‘gold’), denoting either a goldsmith or someone with bright golden hair.
  4. Hungarian (Dore): nickname from dore ‘stupid’, ‘useless’ ‘mad’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dore Families in the US in 1920
Number of dore families
 49-96
 17-48		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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