A femalegiven name from Ancient Greek, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century.
1866, Mary A. Prescott, “Doris Daylesford, A Story”, inBeadle's Monthly Magazine of To-day, volume 2, page149:
"MyDoris—may I call you that, dearest?" "Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, call me Lalage, orDoris—only call me thine," I should have answered, if it had not been a little too sentimental.… I am afraid I omitted to state, in the proper place, thatDoris is a name which has descended through a dozen generations of our family, that it belongs to myself as well as to my niece[…]
1989, Judy Carter,Stand-up Comedy: A Book,→ISBN, page35:
I've never met an old person named Judy. Now that's true. Maybe something happens to girls with young names like Debby, Judy, and Susie. At a certain age they make you change it toDoris, Edna, or Myrtle.
But what about that really annoying drama queen Boris ‘Doris’ Johnson who was definitely after her[Theresa May’s] job, although he kept denying it?
2020 December 6, Andrei Harmsworth, “Lewis Capaldi admits mum is ‘afraid’ he’ll fall into drugs and alcohol but his acid reflux won’t let him”, inMetro[2], London:DMG Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on6 December 2020:
Liam[Gallagher] changed the lyrics of 1994 hitCigarettes & Alcohol to sing: ‘Is it worth the aggravation/To find yourself a job when there’s nothing worth working for?’ The 48-year-old quickly added: ‘That’s for you f***ingRishi[Sunak]… and f***ingDoris.’
According to the 2010 United States Census,Doris is the 15978th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1817 individuals.Doris is most common among White (84.05%) individuals.
Nihilo lenior in conuictores Graeculos, quibus uel maxime adquiescebat, Xenonem quendam exquisitius sermocinantem cum interrogasset, quaenam illa tam molesta dialectos esset, et ille respondissetDoridem, relegauit Cinariam, existimans exprobratum sibi ueterem secessum, quod Dorice Rhodii loquantur.
He treated with no greater leniency the Greeks in his family, even those with whom he was most pleased. Having asked one Zeno, upon his using some far-fetched phrases, “What uncouth dialect is that?” he replied, “The Doric.” For this answer he banished him to Cinara, suspecting that he taunted him with his former residence at Rhodes, where the Doric dialect is spoken.
Doris in singulis partibus orationis nunc adiectioni nunc brevitati studens barbarismos facit [qui barbarismi metaplasmi appellantur], quos cum sibi vindicaverint docti, metaplasmos appellant, ut T e u c r u m m i r a n t u r i n e r t i a c o r d a pro Teucrorum, et a g g e r e m o e r o r u m et a u l a i m e d i o.
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