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Dulcie

#11,189 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly sweet

Dulcie has been given to 1,647 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #11,189 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1968, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Dulcie, 2025

1 in 414,000

Dulcie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dulcie: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly sweet

Latin

What Dulcie means

Dulcie may mean “sweet”, associated with dulcis.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) in the 19th century, probably inspired by earlier names like Dowsabel and Spanish Dulcinea.

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Origin, language, and formation

Dulcie is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Dulcie comes through Latin dulcis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,647 girls were recorded with the name Dulcie between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1968; its best national rank was #665 in 1889.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,493 in 2020 to #11,189 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,147 in 2015 to #11,189 in 2025.

How common is Dulcie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,189
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dulcie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dulcie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dulcies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dulcie was born before 1934 — so the typical Dulcie is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
653
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1920s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (266).

Is Dulcie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,304
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−42
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.5%
Peak was 1968 (41)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#665
1889

Spellings of Dulcie

Dulcie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 88.8% against Dulcie's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dulcie is used

Across 1910–2025, Dulcie was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 977,662 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Missouri1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dulcie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dulcie around the world

Where Dulcie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #463
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • France
    1983–2024
    #6,081
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dulcie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,189
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,304
Best rank ever
#665
1889
Peak year
1968
41 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,647
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Dulcie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dulcie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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