I am a Sorcha, Sor-sha, living in England with Irish grandparents. Yes, the name has many pronunciations but that's mine and I love it. A person's name is the most important word in the world to them, something they say or hear more than anybody else, so it has made me feel quite angry reading these very vitriolic dismissals of MY name!
Lots of cases of the Katie Hopkins here... I don't think Sorcha is an 'ugly', 'illiterate' name as somebody here put it. The person who knows best what my name is is me, and my parents. And my name is Sorcha, and I pronounce it Sor-sha, so people saying that it's wrong are in fact themselves wrong.
Whoever said that this pronunciation is like pronouncing a word wrong has made EXACTLY the critical point... Words change! Spellings change, pronunciations change as society changes. Clothes used to be spelt cloaths, public had a 'k' on the end and rhyme was spelt rime, and the way we speak and pronounce words is always in flux. Anyone who claims to be a linguist or interested in language changing surely must embrace this evolution as something great – if you don't, you're totally missing the point.
I love the fact that my name has a history – as all names do – and it's important that people know the history of their names. I think it's brilliant that this is a living name that's still in use, and has a new chapter of its history now with we Sorchas living in around the world, with our different pronunciations.
I hope that the lady who started this thread called her daughter Sorcha and that she'll grow to love the name. While I was at school I wished I could be called Lucy or something that teachers wouldn't pronounce wrong on the first day of term, but as an adult I love my name, and have met many people who say they do also.