Sorcha

Sorcha casts a gold-streaked shadow in the brilliant light of dawn. Sorcha stands as a perennial beauty, whose lovely radiance and unwavering innocence captivates the heart. Its yellowish letters trail after one another so naturally and effortlessly that it just adds another touch of magic. Exuding warmth and light, it evokes vivid pictures of the ascending sun over the verdant hills of the Emerald Isle. This wonderful name is a reminder of the beauty found in simplicity... my heart feels as if it has been reborn.

At first I thought it was going to be pronounced like Scorcher but in a New York accent...

Not bad, but it sounds kind of harsh.

This is my siblings name, however, we pronounce her name: Sorr-kha.

What posessed my parents to call me this (it's my middle name) I don't know.

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.

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.