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Dorkas
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Origin and Meaning
Latin spelling of Greek δορκας (dorkas) = 'doe', 'gazelle' [1]
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| Gazelle Image by Frank Dickert,[2] License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA |
Related Names
| Dorcas | ♀ |   |
   
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| Dorkas | ♀ |  |
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| Dúkarse | ♀ |  |
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Grammar
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dorkas |
| Genitive: | Dorkaksen |
| Partitive: | Dorkasta |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dorkas |
| Genitive: | Dorkas' / Dorkas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 27 people were named Dorkas (percentage of first or only given name: 48 %) [4]
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[5] |
|
6 | 17 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Finland[6] |
 |
n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
4 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[7] |
  |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
|
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Greenland[9] |
|
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dorkas.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Frank Dickert, source & license
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
