Dora?

[skewiff]

It my great Aunty's name.

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I like! I would use Isadora with Dora as a nickname though.

we have a Theodora.... i love it...
and Dorothea is nice too...
longer versions of the name means you can have other nicknames too... (like, er, "theadora, dinky dora, wouldn't you like to know...." sung to the first line of Balamory...)

Isadora and Theodora are both nice enough if Dora is your objective... :)

unwise

I love it - good friend's daughter is Theodora, but always known as Dora. Why unwise, blinks? Because of Dora the Explorer?

mais oui

d d d d d dora

I like it!

everybody will think it! whatever they say.

Where are we going! clap clap clap Dora's house!

I like it :)

I love it. Our DD2 is called Teodora (DH is Italian) and although we tend to call her Teo, I love Dora and wouldn't mind at all if she became known as Dora when she got older.

Isadora is beautiful as well!

When I read the title I automatically thought of Dora The Explorer....however the programme is unlikey to be around for ever (fingers crossed!)....she's bound to run out of adventures soon.

i get the Dora references but it's a preschool programme?? so hardly going to plague her all the way through school...
but then...i also know a pre-Lauren Child Charlie and Lola.... (both perfectly psychologically intact AFAIK) so what do i know
just make sure she's a Cbeebies kinda girl....my girls can't bear dora or manny (tfft )

Thank you,

I hadn't thought of Dora the Explorer - my son only watches Cbeebies.

Sorry, I do like it as a name, but I can't say Dora without hearing 'the explorer'

I like it. I'm sure Dora the explorer won't be around forever.

Dora the Explorer has staying power, I reckon she'll be around for eons!

I think it's lovely.

I wouldn't be concerned about the Dora the Explorer thing people have raised, it's hardly a bad assocation.

After all, people still name their daughters Amelia, and that's the name of a birth defect.

I wasn't offended at all. Your comments have made me laugh - a nice relief from feeling tearful and moody since Christmas.

There are so many girls names to choose from (in comparison to boys - for my first) that crossing another one out is helpful - although Dora the explorer won't make me cross this out.

I don't know about the association dying out. Sabrina the Teenage Witch was only on for four years, but I reckon everyone my age would associate the name with the programme. To check, I just called out across the living room to my partner:

"Sabrina-?"
"The teenage witch."
"Dora?"
"The explorer. ... Are we playing a game?"

But I think that Theodora is a lovely name.