Dorian

Dorian is an English name derived from the ancient Greek Dōrieus, referring to a member of the Dorians, a Hellenic people whose name is traditionally connected to the region of Doris in central Greece. The name was brought into widespread use by Oscar Wilde, who chose it for the protagonist of his 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, making it simultaneously his most famous literary creation and the primary vehicle through which the name entered modern usage. Because Wilde coined or popularized the name for a character associated with youth, beauty, and moral corruption, it carries a distinctly aesthetic and somewhat shadowy literary resonance. The Hungarian form Dorián and the name Doris share the same Greek ethnic root.