Meaning not yet researched.
Dorcas: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #522 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #522 in 1880; #4,002 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dorcas in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,002 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #522.
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Dorcas: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #522 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 142 (1923).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Dorcas, making it the 4,002nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,002 places from #6,004 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 20 girls named Dorcas in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #522, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 142, in 1923. For comparison, it was #4,626 in 2015 and #1,091 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dorcas in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 7,268 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,211 babies named Dorcas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 273 US girls were named Dorcas; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dorcus and Dorica are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Greek. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dorcus (287), Dorica (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dorcas in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,002 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,004 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,602 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,995 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,101 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,200 | — | — |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,716 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,035 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,626 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,959 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,106 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,242 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,379 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,997 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,395 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,942 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,807 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,281 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,517 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,144 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,484 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,003 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,553 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,521 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,812 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1966 | 60 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1964 | 87 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1961 | 80 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1958 | 73 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1957 | 88 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1956 | 78 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1955 | 107 | #956 | — | — |
| 1954 | 82 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1953 | 70 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1952 | 79 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1951 | 74 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1950 | 71 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1949 | 70 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1948 | 83 | #956 | — | — |
| 1947 | 73 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1946 | 88 | #887 | — | — |
| 1945 | 65 | #956 | — | — |
| 1944 | 69 | #927 | — | — |
| 1943 | 70 | #936 | — | — |
| 1942 | 83 | #836 | — | — |
| 1941 | 63 | #927 | — | — |
| 1940 | 86 | #743 | — | — |
| 1939 | 79 | #768 | — | — |
| 1938 | 101 | #683 | — | — |
| 1937 | 78 | #775 | — | — |
| 1936 | 63 | #857 | — | — |
| 1935 | 81 | #752 | — | — |
| 1934 | 104 | #657 | — | — |
| 1933 | 94 | #673 | — | — |
| 1932 | 113 | #630 | — | — |
| 1931 | 98 | #674 | — | — |
| 1930 | 75 | #819 | — | — |
| 1929 | 116 | #648 | — | — |
| 1928 | 87 | #767 | — | — |
| 1927 | 111 | #689 | — | — |
| 1926 | 126 | #641 | — | — |
| 1925 | 130 | #640 | — | — |
| 1924 | 108 | #715 | — | — |
| 1923 | 142 | #617 | — | — |
| 1922 | 125 | #655 | — | — |
| 1921 | 140 | #620 | — | — |
| 1920 | 126 | #644 | — | — |
| 1919 | 106 | #679 | — | — |
| 1918 | 106 | #698 | — | — |
| 1917 | 101 | #684 | — | — |
| 1916 | 114 | #634 | — | — |
| 1915 | 86 | #722 | — | — |
| 1914 | 79 | #653 | — | — |
| 1913 | 56 | #695 | — | — |
| 1912 | 45 | #748 | — | — |
| 1911 | 44 | #653 | — | — |
| 1910 | 34 | #725 | — | — |
| 1909 | 29 | #751 | — | — |
| 1908 | 27 | #746 | — | — |
| 1907 | 31 | #681 | — | — |
| 1906 | 24 | #745 | — | — |
| 1905 | 24 | #739 | — | — |
| 1904 | 16 | #914 | — | — |
| 1903 | 23 | #698 | — | — |
| 1902 | 22 | #742 | — | — |
| 1901 | 15 | #861 | — | — |
| 1900 | 15 | #982 | — | — |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1898 | 16 | #850 | — | — |
| 1897 | 19 | #720 | — | — |
| 1896 | 14 | #878 | — | — |
| 1895 | 19 | #728 | — | — |
| 1894 | 16 | #757 | — | — |
| 1893 | 20 | #646 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #917 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1890 | 15 | #697 | — | — |
| 1889 | 11 | #810 | — | — |
| 1888 | 15 | #667 | — | — |
| 1887 | 11 | #701 | — | — |
| 1886 | 9 | #787 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #859 | — | — |
| 1884 | 14 | #562 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #711 | — | — |
| 1882 | 12 | #534 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #760 | — | — |
| 1880 | 11 | #522 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).