Doris
Origin of the name Doris:
Derived from the Greek Dōris (Dorian woman). The Dorians were one of the four main tribes of ancient Greece who settled in the mountainous area also known as Doris. The name is borne in Greek mythology by a goddess of the sea.
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Dorrie, Dora, Grettle
- Meanings and history of the name Doris: | Edit
From a Greek word meaning “bountiful.”
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Doris Day, American actress
Doris Lessing (Nobel Prize for Literature, 2007)
Doris Roberts, American actress
Doris Duke, American heiress and philanthropist.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winning American author and historian.- Doris in song, story & screen: | Edit
In Greek mythology, Doris was a sea nymph, the wife of Nereus and mother of the fifty Nereids. Her name represents the bounty of the sea.
"Doris", 1889 opera by Alfred Cellier.
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