Dover The Port of Dover provides much of the town's employment, as does tourism. First recorded in its Latinised form of "Portus Dubris", the name derives from the Brythonic word for waters ("dwfr" in Middle Welsh. The same element is present in the town's French ("Douvres") and Modern Welsh ("Dofr") forms (though the modern Welsh name is in fact a borrowing from, and an adaptation of, the English name Dover), as well as the name of the river Dour and is evident in other English towns such as Wendover. The current name was in use at least by the time of
Jesus (name) Jesus (name) Jesus (IPA: ) is a masculine given name derived from the name Iēsous (Greek: ), the Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (Hebrew: ). As its roots lie in the name Yeshua, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua. "Jesus" remains extremely rare as a given name among the English-speaking world, even while it has had longstanding popularity among people with other language background, such as the Spanish Jesús or the Arabic Isa. The name Jesus is a Greco-Roman derivation of the Hebrew name Yeshua, which is based on the Semitic root "y-š-ʕ" (Hebrew: ),