Dor
The meaning most people hear in Dor is Hebrew: *dor*, generation, a link from one age to the next. In Poland it stays rare, carried by just 174 people, most of them men.
Dor Pronunciation
Dor is pronounced DOR (/dɔr/).
What Dor means
Where Dor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dor traces back to Greek, where the form Doros named the ancestor the ancient Dorians claimed as their own. That older thread is the origin recorded for the name here.
The meaning most people attach to Dor comes from Hebrew. There the word dor means generation, and among Jewish families the name reads as a link between one age and the next. That sense of generation fixed itself to the name later than its Greek root. In modern Israel Dor names girls and boys alike. It is only three letters.
On a Polish class register the entry would sit short and plain among longer names. In Polish the name is glossed pokolenie, generation, the meaning the Hebrew dor holds.
How many people are named Dor
1 in 137717 men in Poland is named Dor. 174 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2412 among male names.
Dor as a middle name
Dor is a first name for 174 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3520th, between Donovan (8) and Dorin (8).
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#3518 Do8
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#3519 Donovan8
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#3520 Dor8
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#3521 Dorin8
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#3522 Dorjan8