Name Doris

There are multiple origins and translations for the hugely popular name Doris:

1. Greek name (Δωρίς) means - "woman from Doris; from the ocean"

2. Comes from the ancient Greek word (δωρεά) [dorea] means - "gift, grand; offering; donation"

3. Derivative form of the name Dolores, which was derived from the Latin word (dolor) and interpretation is - "sorrows; grieving Virgin Mary".

Doris is an Oceanid, a sea nymph in Greek mythology, whose name represented the bounty of the sea. She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and the wife of Nereus. She was also aunt to Atlas, the titan who was made to carry the sky upon his shoulders, whose mother Clymene was a sister of Doris. Doris was mother to the fifty Nereids, including Thetis, who was the mother of Achilles, and Amphitrite, Poseidon's wife, and grandmother of Triton.