Dorcas

Greek

"doe, gazelle"

The name Dorcas is currently ranked #954 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #522 in 1880. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in DORCAS, DORCAS, and DORCAS.

Dorcas Rank in US Top 1000

# 954 in the US

Dorcas Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1788 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Dorcas

• 1788 Nameberry 2026

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Famous People Named Dorcas

• Dorcas disciple from Joppa in Acts of the Apostles (9:36–42)
• Dorcas Marie "Doe" Avedon American model and actress
• Dorcas Wright "Dede" Gardner American film producer
• Dorcas Blackwood 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye
• Dorcas Matthews English,American silent film actress
• Dorcas R. Hardy 10th Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration
• Dorcas Martin English bookseller and translator
• Dorcas Cochran American lyricist
• Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan Nigerian badminton player
• Dorcas Gyimah Ghanaian sprinter
• Dorcas Denhartog American skier
• Dorcas Nakhomicha Ndasaba Kenyan volleyball player
• Dorcas Hoar accused witch during the Salem trials
• Dorcus Inzikuru Ugandan steeplechase runner

The name Dorcas in Pop Culture

• Dorcas Meadowes character in the "Harry Potter" series
• Dorcas Clare character in "The Merry Devil of Edmonton"
• Dorcas Lane character in "Lark Rise to Candleford"
• Dorcas Gailen character in film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
• Dorcas Brandon beautiful but apathetic heiress in "Wylder's Hand" (1864) by Sheridan Le Fanu; cousin to, and formerly engaged to, Mark Wylder (inheritor of the Brandon estates, who suddenly breaks off their engagement)
• Dorcas Loom character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• Dorcas Saxtorph character in "Inconstant Star' by Poul Anderson
• Dorcas character in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• Dorcas character in film "My Life in Ruins"
• Dorcas character in Arthur Sullivan's light opera "Haddon Hall"
• Dorcas character in opera "Thomas and Sally" by Thomas Arne
• Dorcas character in "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
• Dorcas character in "Rose Madder" by Stephen King
• Dorcas character in "The Shadow of the Torturer" by Gene Wolfe
• Dorcas Malvin character in "Roger Malvin's Burial" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Dorcas Rivas character in Filipino TV series "Beauty Queen"
• Dorcas Harrow character in "Beasts" by Joyce Carol Oates
• Dorcas Leigh aka Godiva character in DC Comics
• Dorcasina Sheldon novel,reading central character of Tabitha Tenney's "Female Quixotism" (1801; satire on the sentimental novels popular in America in the later 18th and earlier 19th centuries)
• Dorcas character on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina