Dorcas
2025 SSA
About Dorcas
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.
Pronounced DOR-kus.
As of October 2026, Dorcas ranked #4002 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #522 in 1880.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | #4,626 | 30 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | #4,092 | 35 | 20.6 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | #4,100 | 34 | 21 |
| 2021 | #4,994 | 26 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | #4,002 | 36 | 22.4 |
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10th Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration
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American lyricist
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Ghanaian sprinter
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Kenyan volleyball player
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accused witch during the Salem trials
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character in the "Harry Potter" series
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character in "Lark Rise to Candleford"
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character in film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
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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)
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character in "Inconstant Star' by Poul Anderson
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character in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
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character in film "My Life in Ruins"
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character in Arthur Sullivan's light opera "Haddon Hall"
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character in opera "Thomas and Sally" by Thomas Arne
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character in "The Shadow of the Torturer" by Gene Wolfe
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character in "Beasts" by Joyce Carol Oates
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character in DC Comics
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