Given name & surname
Dorcy
“a dark beauty”
Dorcy is a variant of Darcie. One English interpretation is “a dark beauty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dorcy is a variant of Darcie. One English interpretation is “a dark beauty.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Dorcy is a variant of Darcie. An origin associated with Darcie is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dorcy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1926. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 107 as a first name in 2020; 282 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Dorcy
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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