Doris
From Greek, where the first Doris was a sea goddess, an Oceanid, and the name means a Dorian woman. Fewer than 300 women in Poland carry it, and no girl was given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Doris Pronunciation
Doris is pronounced DO-rees (/ˈdɔris/).
What Doris means
Where Doris comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Doris comes from Greek. Its first bearer was a goddess of the sea, an Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and mother of the fifty Nereids. The name also belongs to Doris, a region of ancient Greece, and to the Dorians who settled there. The literal sense is a Dorian woman, one of that people.
In English and German the name found later admirers. Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, wrote under it, and Doris Day sang under it in Hollywood. German parents favoured it heavily in the first decades of the twentieth century, before it slipped out of fashion.
The Polish reading, dar oceanu, or gift of the ocean, was attached long after the Greek. It grew from that old link to the sea nymph rather than from the word itself. On a Polish class register the name still reads as slightly foreign, a visitor from Greek myth. Its meaning stays close to shore: a Dorian woman, born of the sea.
How many people are named Doris
1 in 80227 women in Poland is named Doris. 283 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1805 among female names.
Doris as a middle name
Doris is a first name for 283 women in Poland and a middle name for another 159, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 526th, between Helene (162) and Dąbrówka (159).
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#524 Ashley162
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#525 Helene162
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#526 Doris159
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#527 Dąbrówka159
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#528 Melissa158