Dorca — girls' name

What the Data Says About Dorca

The Social Security Administration has registered 30 babies named Dorca between 1966 and 2004, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dorca currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 5 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dorca performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dorca shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dorca in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dorca in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 30 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.