The usual full names for Dora include Dorothy/Dorothea, Doris, Theodora, & Isadora, although none are at all common today.
(I would also like you all to know that I now have the "Dora the Explorer" theme song stuck in my head. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah.)
- Adora (ah-DOR-ah, English, Spanish)--from Spanish adoración. Catalan form is Adoració.
- Adorinda (ah-doh-REEN-dah, Esperanto)--"adorable"
- Anesidora (ah-nee-sih-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"sender of gifts"
- Cassiodora (kahs-see-oh-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)
- Christodora (kris-toh-DOR-ah), [ancient] Greek)--"gift of Christ"
- Cleodora (kleh-oh-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"gift of glory"
- Devorah (deh-voh-RAH, Hebrew)--form of Deborah
- Dinorah (dee-NOR-ah, Portuguese, Spanish)
- Diodora (dee-oh-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"gift of Zeus"
- Doralice (doh-rah-LEE-cheh, Italian; doh-rah-LEE-see, Portuguese)--poss. from Greek, "gift of the dawn". Other forms include Doralys (Spanish) & Doralise (English).
- Doriane (doh-ree-AHN, French)--feminine of Dorian. Another form is Doriana (Italian, Portuguese).
- Dorina (doh-REE-nah, Hungarian, Romanian)
- Dorit (DOR-it, Scandinavian)--form of Dorothea
- Eldora (el-DOR-ah, English)
- Eudora (yoo-DOR-ah, English)--from Greek, "good gift"
- Halldóra (HAL-doh-rah, Icelandic)--another form is Aldora (Norwegian)
- Heliodora (ay-lee-oh-DOR-ah, Portuguese, Spanish)--from Greek, "gift of the sun"
- Medora (meh-DOR-ah, English)
- Menodora (men-ah-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"gift of the moon". Romanian form is Minodora.
- Metrodora (met-roh-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"gift of the mother"
- Midori (mee-doh-ree, Japanese)--"green"
- Nicodora (nee-koh-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"gift of victory"
- Polydora (pol-ee-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"many gifts"
- Teodora (teh-oh-DOR-ah, Bulgarian, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian)--form of Theodora. Other forms include Feodora (Russian) and Deodora (Norwegian).
- Zenodora (zee-noh-DOR-ah, [ancient] Greek)--"gift of Zeus"
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