| Gender | 👩 Girl |
| Pronunciation | 📣 \d(o)-ra\ |
| Number of People | 👶 106,000 |
| Rate in 2021 | 4249 |
| Numerology | 🔢 2 |
| Name origin | 🌍 Greek |
Dora is a shortened version of the name Theodora, of Greek origin, meaning 'gift of God.' As such, the name Dora accentuates a sense of divine generosity, indicating a precious gift from above.
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Dora is a name associated with old ladies. Anyone of the male gender was more likely to have been named Theodore, when'theodore Roosevelt was president of the U.S. between 1901 and 1909.
Happens to precede the name of any of the mon'ters in'the 2004 Japanese TV programme 'Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger' (which inspired its American equivalent 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers', aired 2005-96), while the witch in'the programme is called Bandora (alias MMPR's Rita Repulsa).
In'the 2004 Japanese program Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (Dinosaur Squadron Beast Rangers), the original Super'sentai incarn'tion of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1, the'so-called "Dora Mon'ters", most of them male, existed in both the Japanese and American versions but had different names - for in'tance, Dora Argos in Zyuranger is better known in MMPR as Eye Guy, Dora Ladon and Dora Endos are known as Snizzard and Pineoctopus respectively, Dora Goblin is called Gnarly Gnome, Dora Sphinx is King Sphinx, and Dora Circe is called Pudgy Pig (Circe was originally the name of an enchantress able to turn greedy sailors into pigs (literally) and the moly herb was her only weakness). Those called Dora Knight beware - for Dora Knight was the original Zyuranger name of Knasty Knight, sent by Bandora/Rita Repulsa to fight either the Japanese rangers - red ranger Geki, black ranger Goushi, blue ranger Dan, yellow ranger Boi (a male in'the Japanese version which is why the costume is skirtless), and pink ranger Mei - in Zyuranger or their American equivalents Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini, and Kimberly in MMPR (the title of the American version of that episode is 'Happy Birthday, Zack').