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dorer Name Meaning and History

German: topographic name for someone who lived by the gate of a town or city, from Middle High German tor(e), Middle Low German dore ‘gate’, + the suffix -(e)r, denoting an inhabitant.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dorer Families in the US in 1920
Number of dorer families
 10-17
 4-9
 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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