Dorcas

Greek

"doe, gazelle"

Dorcas Origin and Meaning

The name Dorcas is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "doe, gazelle".

Classic name used by the Romans, the Puritans, and the Bard, but pretty much taboo today due to the objectionable connotations of both its front and back ends.

Dorcas Rank in US Top 1000

# 954 in the US

Dorcas Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1090 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Dorcas

• 1090 Nameberry 2025

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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