Doris (first name)
Doris is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Doris comes from the German shepherd poetry of the late 17th century. The name model was the Greek Oceanid Doris (Δωρίς).
The fact that Doris can be understood as a short form of the given name Dorothea certainly contributed to the continued popularity of the name .
Weitershaus interprets the name Doris as Dorerin .
variants
Name bearer
- Doris Miller (1919–1943), American ship's cook and porter of the Navy Cross
Name bearers
- Doris de Agostini (* 1958), Swiss ski racer
- Doris Ahnen (* 1964), German politician (SPD)
- Doris Barnett (* 1953), German politician
- Doris Conrads (* 1949), German artist (painting and photography)
- Doris Day (1922-2019), American actress
- Doris Dörrie (* 1955), German director, author and producer
- Doris Drew (* ≈1925), American pop and jazz singer
- Doris Eisenburger (* 1966), Romanian illustrator
- Doris Fiala (* 1957), Swiss entrepreneur and politician (FDP)
- Doris Fitschen (* 1968), German soccer player
- Doris Gercke (* 1937), German author
- Doris Golpashin (* 1980), Austrian television and radio presenter
- Doris Harder (* 19 **), German director
- Doris Hart (1925-2015), American tennis player
- Doris Heinze (* 1949), German screenwriter and television producer
- Doris Andrea Hrda , known as Nicki (* 1966), German pop singer
- Doris Jannausch (1925–2017), German writer, theater actress and cabaret artist
- Doris Kresimon (* 1955), German soccer player
- Doris König (* 1957), German legal scholar, Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- Doris Kunstmann (* 1944), German actress
- Doris Lessing (1919–2013), British writer
- Doris Leuthard (* 1963), Swiss Federal Councilor
- Doris Maletzki (* 1952), German athlete
- Doris Matthäus (* 1963), German graphic artist
- Doris Müller (athlete) (1935-2013), German athlete
- Doris Müller (politician) (* 1964), German politician (SPD)
- Doris Neuner (* 1971), Austrian luge athlete
- Doris Oswald (* 1936), German author, humorist and Swabian dialect poet
- Doris Pack (* 1942), German politician (CDU)
- Doris Papperitz (* 1948), German sports journalist
- Doris Quarella (1944–1998), Swiss photographer
- Doris Roberts (1925-2016), American actress
- Doris Fürstin von Sayn-Wittgenstein (* 1954), German politician
- Doris Schade (1924–2012), German actress
- Doris von Schönthan (1905–1961), German model, copywriter, journalist and photographer
- Doris Schretzmayer (* 1972), Austrian actress
- Doris Schröder-Köpf (* 1963), German journalist and book author
- Doris Shadbolt (1918–2003), Canadian art historian
- Doris Stump (* 1950), Swiss Germanist, publisher and politician (SP)
- Doris Troy (1937-2004), American soul singer
- Doris Uhlich (* 1977), Austrian choreographer and performance artist
- Doris Younane (born 1963), Australian actress
- Doris Zander (* 1958), German television producer
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rosa Kohlheim, Duden, The large first name dictionary, Dudenverlag, Mannheim, 1998, ISBN 3411060816
- ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Weitershaus, The new big name book, Mosaik Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3576105409