Dorcas

[Maffy]

What do you think of Dorcas for a girl? I like it, but my family has already shortened it to Dork!

I love it, surely there must be a nicer nn though

No please don't.

i don't like it, sorry.
same reason... it justmakes me think dork

Dorcas is pretty but I thought dork too originally... maybe Cassie as an nn?

Awful. Just about the worst name I can imagine. It makes Doris sound pretty.

Is this thread a joke?

Dorcas is quite a nice name and I do know someone called Dorcas but she does get called things like doofus as a joke and does take it in good spirits but still not a nice nn choice.

Pretty!!? I don't think so! It's horrendous!
Prefer vera, ethel, irene, enid, blanche, avis....

Farking hell, no.

I like it, it remind me of being small and growing up in the South Pacific where there were a lot of Dorcases.

Apparently it's offered in the Bible as an "interpretation" of the Aramaic name Tabitha.

Dora for short?

TBH, I wouldn't use it.

Are you Welsh, Maffy? I think Dorcas is a lovely name - I thought about calling my DD Dorcas, but went for a safer option (because of the shortening to Dork, I suppose!)I know of a Dorcas in North Wales.

I have an old school friend who is a Dorcas. It suits her perfectly as she's irrepresibly rustic (fires her own pottery, grows three types of cabbage) and she's pretty 'individual'; she could never be an Emma or Claire.

TBH, with any unusual name, people sort of grow into it when you know them well and the initial associations fade away.

I think Dorcas could be described as pretty but 'character building' as a name, but there's nothing wrong with that (IMHO!)

It's a shade too far for me (and I like quite a few far-out or lesser-liked names!)

I feel Edith, Tabitha and Martha are in the same vein but a lot nicer. Dorcas is clumsy(IMHO). To me, it also sounds like an adjective rather than a name!

oh i love dorcas - and to me it is a glamorous name! isn't it funny how people's interpretations differ? i think of a 1950s starlet type
i wanted dorcas for a girl, but dp vetoed ("dork")
he picked dulcie instead - which can be shortened to "dull"

we have boys so far, btw :o

No I hate it, sounds like a character from a fantasy novel

Bad bad name. Confident you can do better.

It's hideous.

Did you get the name from Lark Rise to Candleford? Just think you are unfortunately going to open your DC up to dork name calling as you say.

I love it.
There was a girl at school called Dorcas. Fab name.

Dorcas was one of the girls in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
So I always think of a dark haired dancer with long legs and red lipstick.
Same as CoKooks I think of somebody glamorous

Unless you really want your kid to hate you - then don't.

'dorc' for short....?

I'm sorry it has always reminded me of 'tortoise'.

But then I totally don't get the whole ironic old lady/old man name craze that's so popular atm.