Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Dorel isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1933. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dorel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1933
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1933. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 363 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dorel’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Dorel is a diminutive of Tudor.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dorel
- Dorel Simionboxerborn 1977
- Dorel StoicaRomanian footballerborn 1978
- Dorel VișanRomanian actorborn 1937
- Dorel ZegreanRomanian footballerborn 1969
- Dorel ZahariaRomanian footballerborn 1978
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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