girls:
282 births since 1917
#5434 (5th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1972
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
287 births since 1917
#7452 (4th percentile)
The name Dorcus is the #7,452 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 287 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,434 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 282 births since 1917. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1972.
Dorcus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Dorcus is available in 45 out of the 67 years between 1917 and 1983 (44 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dorcus has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dorcus reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #602) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
For boys, Dorcus reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #661) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dorcus".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dorcus is pronounced as DOR-kuhs, which has 2 syllables.
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