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Sorcha

Girl · Irish

Sorcha

Say it: SUR-uh-khuh

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Meaning

Irish sorcha 'bright, radiant'. Long used to render English Sarah and Sally, which are unrelated.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Bright

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

051018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2010per million babies of that sex
  • 240 babies given this name since 1989
  • At its height in 2010, about 1 in 118,400 girls
  • 5 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

IrishScottish

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Where this comes from

  • The Irish annals and early Irish literature
  • National birth statistics of European countries source
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.