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Comments for SORCHA:
Hebrew for "sorceress".-- Sorcha 2/10/2005
It is the Irish variation of "Sarah".-- Anonymous User 5/12/2005
I have read elsewhere that this is the Irish form of Claire, as they both mean bright.-- CDN 7/3/2005
It's the name of Donal O'Donnell's wife in "The Wonders of the Three Donals," a folktale from Donegal.-- Jenna R 7/11/2005
The main character in Juliet Marillier's "Daughter of the Forest". I absolutely adore this name!-- queenofaquitaine 7/20/2005
YES! Wonderful book, and a lovely name made more-so by the character! Since names tend to take on more than their original meaning through usage (and some are begun as literary devices), it would not surprise me to have the additional meanings of "brave warrior, courageous lady", etc. added as the result of the literaty usage!-- Peri 9/30/2005
This name is also used in the movie Willow.-- Jeana Bradbury 1/26/2006
I'm sorry, it is not! The name used in Ron Howard's fantasy-epos "Willow" was SORSHA, as you can see here: http://www.lepconnie.com/willow/encyclopedia/thepeople.html (see 'Sorsha') or here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096446/ (see 'Joanne Whalley').-- MusicalTwinSiStar2 2/15/2006
I think this is such a pretty name - one of my (few) favourite Irish names (even though I'm Irish myself!) A girl in my class has this name but she is the only person I have ever heard with this name. There also used to be character called this on the Irish soap-opera "Fair City". You can pronounce it like SOR-SHA, but I much prefer SOR-KA, with a hard CH.-- emeraldstar 6/28/2006
Pronounced SOR-ca or SUR-ha.-- Mine 8/29/2006
It's pronounced "SOR-kha".-- gaelruadh19 11/27/2006
There's also the Gaelic "Dorcha," which has the opposite meaning of "Sorcha" (that is, "dark").-- gaelruadh19 11/27/2006
The meaning is lovely but the whole look of the name makes me screw my face up and when I say Sorcha it gets stuck in my mouth and comes out sounding horrible.-- laney 1/6/2007
More accurately pronounced as 'SURR-kha' with the last syllable being softer than it looks.-- Lizdebiz 1/17/2007
It's actually pronounces SOR-ra.-- nothingshortoftragic 2/10/2007
Virtually unknown in this country, Sorcha is an old Irish name that has become very popular in contemporary Ireland. It means "shining bright" and is pronounced SOR-ra.-- nothingshortoftragic 2/10/2007
Actress Sorcha Cusack played the title role in the 1973 film version of "Jane Eyre." I have been told this is the best version ever made.-- Annabeau 2/15/2007
The name Sorka is the protagonist's name in Dragonsdawn, by Anne McCaffrey. It is also the name of a main character in the Keltiad novels 'The Throne of Scone' and 'The Copper Crown', by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, with the spelling of Sorcha.-- reinedudrame 7/10/2007
It's not Sor-ka, that is a very, very wrong pronunciation and it annoys me. It's pronounced Surr-i-ca.-- Clodagh 10/27/2007
What posessed my parents to call me this (it's my middle name) I don't know.-- Glamorous 1/7/2008
Well, isn't this funny? A dozen people claiming THEY know the right pronunciation of the name. There seem to at least six correct pronunciation until now.-- Anonymous User 5/7/2008
It is pronounced SUR-ik-a in phonetic English, not SOR-sha. Many people make this mistake.-- GarbageGuy 5/11/2008
Well, my name's Sorcha and I can confirm that there are multiple pronunciations of the name used all the time! All are pretty much acceptable too! I use the version as if phonetically spelt SOR-A-KA, and then I usually use SORKA as a nickname.-- sorcha3692 8/12/2008
Incidentally, Sorcha does not mean Sara(h), or anything Hebrew or Latin. We Gaelic speaking Irish had our own, unique names, the meaning of which is often lost in the mists of time. When the English forced us to learn English (after emancipation in 1823), they renamed us names in school that usually sounded similar to theirs. For example, Donal became Daniel & yes - Danny boy might have been Donal boy, or more probably, anglicised as Donny Boy.-- eiringo 8/13/2008
It's pronounced SOR-sha. Very silly how people are coming up with surr-ik-a and other things- there's not even an I in there! I love this name, however.-- Anonymous User 1/27/2009
The "ch" in Gaelic is always pronounced "kh" as in "loch", never as in "Charlotte"; I speak Gaelic and I can say that it's pronounced "SOR-kha" or "SOR-i-kha" depending on the speaker. And the added (and actually half-pronounced most of the time) "i" sound is found in many Gaelic words to soften the pronunciation; "dearg" (JER-uk), "Donnchadh" (DAWN-ukh-a), "garg" (GAR-uk), "garbh" (GAR-uv), "doirbh" (DUR-uv), and the like.-- gaelruadh19 1/28/2009
Gaelruadh19 is right, though it's more of a SOR-ik-ah than SOR-ka.-- Anonymous User 1/29/2009
It's Sor-i-ka!-- clairabella 1/29/2009
My name is Sorcha, my mother and I pronounce it soar-sha. We both know that's wrong. But it's just another way to do it.-- SorchaMary 2/23/2009
Here for pronunciation:
http://www.babynamesofireland.com/pages/girl-names-n-z.html
From Sorcha meaning "bright, radiant, light." Popular in the Middle Ages, the name has become popular again in recent years partly due to the success of the Irish actress Sorcha Cusack in Britain.-- Ligeia 5/20/2010
my friend is named this and she says it's pronounced like sarah-ka but i suppose the pronunciation would vary.-- audreybee 3/24/2012
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