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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Russian : Good
  • Polish : Good

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Slovak (Dobrý) : nickname from Czech dobrý ‘good’, ‘honest’, ‘faithful’.
  • French : patronymic from the personal name Obry, a spelling variant of Aubrey.
  • English : altered form of the French surname Dobrée, which was taken to England by a Huguenot family whose ancestor had fled to Guernsey after the St. Bartholomew Massacre in 1572.

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