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The Portrait of Dorian Grey! Definitely a male name. And I knew a Dorianne at uni - poised, dishy, blonde and definitely female; pronounced with a short o, DOreeAN. And English-speaking. An Afrikaans colleague's names were Anna Dorothea but she was always and only Dorianne - I never saw it written down, so it might well have been Doriaan, sounding like DORriAHN.

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I don't much like it for a girl, though I love Marianne which is pretty close. I'd count it as a GP for boys; wouldn't use it myself, but for anyone with the audacity, it'd be fun.