# Anybody else use the nickname 'Dort' for the name 'Dorothy'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461 "2021-04-05T23:48:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/21 "2021-04-06T15:35:18Z")
My mother was named Dorothy, she was never called Dort. She was Dot or Dottie if a nickname was used except for her brothers that called her Bobbie, her middle name was Roberta. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/22 "2021-04-06T16:09:24Z")
I know a Dorothy that goes by Dort. A friend (that doesn’t like her), calls her Dork. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/23 "2021-04-06T16:58:36Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > I know a Dorothy that goes by Dort Where’s she from, if I might inquire? Any Nederlandish heritage in her background? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/24 "2021-04-06T17:29:45Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > She was Dot or Dottie if a nickname was used except for her brothers that called her Bobbie, her middle name was Roberta. I didn’t think I’d get to play in this thread but this reminded me. I had a great great aunt (born 1899) called Bobbie but named Elsie. She passed in about 1990 or so. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/25 "2021-04-06T17:37:48Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Where’s she from, if I might inquire? I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/26 "2021-04-06T22:20:50Z")
I knew a Dorry as short for Dorothy, but not a Dort. She hated being called Dorothy; she thought it sounded stodgy. My own family nickname is a rare one and I have lots of friends with nicknames that aren’t in the mainstream. I rather like the individuality. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/27 "2021-04-06T23:32:14Z")
My grandmother was named Dorothy, and her sisters called her Dort. She was born in the early 1900s and lived in West Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/28 "2021-04-08T15:42:14Z")
I have an elderly in-law named Dorothy and I’ve heard other in-laws call her Dort from time to time. This is also in WI, but Polish heritage, not Dutch. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/29 "2021-04-08T18:09:24Z")
Nice to know that Dorts are rare but not quite unicorn status. Aunt Dort’s funeral is tomorrow. It’ll be poignant but more celebration of life than mourning, fortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/30 "2021-04-09T02:25:46Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Mommy, mommy buy me a license plate! > > No. Come along, Dort. > > Are you talking to me? > > No, my daughter is also named Dort. God damn it, I’m always late with the quips ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/31 "2021-04-09T16:41:42Z")
My great aunt Dorothy was always known as Auntie Doff. Doff! Awful! She was from Suffolk in England, if that makes any difference. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/32 "2021-04-11T00:57:46Z")
My great aunt Dorothy was Dolly. Her surname was Duck - Dolly Duck 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461/33 "2021-04-11T03:55:59Z")
My grandmother, from the Chicago area of Danish descent, went by her full name, Dorthy. My grandfather called her Dor (and perhaps that was a nickname used by other family members and/or in her youth, I don’t know). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-use-the-nickname-dort-for-the-name-dorothy/939461.md?page=1)