Dorcas

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Heard a lovely, chubby, smiley toddler being addressed as this in a shop yesterday.
Does anyone know of any other little Dorcases around. I thought that name had died a death.

I know an adult one. I like the name but dislike the fact it's Dork and Ass together. I bet 100 years ago it would have felt quite sophisticated though.

I assumed it was a boy's name, and thought it was awful. Even worse now I know it's a girl's name!

Wasn't it the name of a gnome in one if the Terry Pratchett books? I've never heard of it as a name for an actual person!

I know a 15 year old Dorcas. I reeeeally don't like the sound of it and was quite dismayed to discover it was the Greek version of my favourite girls' name Tabitha!

I've heard the name Dorcas before and thought 'blimey, that's a bad one' but ..... it's a girls name??!!! I thought it was a guys name. God. It's fifty times worse on a girl.

It's lovely and well worth a revival like Martha etc.

I like it. Though associations include the sharp-tongued elderly cook in Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm by Enid Blyton, as someone else mentioned (in fact it's a name that often seems to have been associated with servants, at least in fiction?) and Dorcas societies, which were all-female charitable societies that got together to sew clothes for the poor.

It sounds somewhat like the Irish for 'dark'/'darkness', which might be why I like it.