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Dori Marlin would like the world to know that, yes, “Dori Marlin” is her real, given name. “I was here long before the movie ‘Finding Nemo,’” she says with a laugh.
According to Jewish tradition, she says, it’s customary to give a child a name starting with the first letter of a deceased family member’s name. In Marlin's case, she’s named after her great-grandmother, Dora.
“So creative!” she says, still laughing. “They changed just one letter. Growing up, I hated the name. But now there’s the fish, Dory, and suddenly it’s cool. Maybe it’s not so bad. It just took me a while to grow into it and appreciate it.”
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