Given name
Dorina
Dorina is a feminine given name. It is used in Romanian and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Dorina 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 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dorina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 968
- 0 boys · 968 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,246 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,246 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 42 in 1969. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,753 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.
Dorina’s family of names
In German usage, Dorina has a related form in Dorothea.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dorina
- Dorina Vaccaronifencerborn 1963
- Dorina BöczögőHungarian artistic gymnast (1992–)
- Dorina CatineanuRomanian athletics competitorborn 1954
- Dorina KorsósHungarian handball playerborn 1995
- Dorina Nowillactivist for blind people education1919–2010
- Dorina MihaiRomanian fencerborn 1981
- ДevaHungarian electro-folk singer and songwriterborn 2000
- Dorina PieperGerman biathleteborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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