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Dulcinea

Girls' name

Sweetly, melodiously, through dulce

Dulcinea has been given to 325 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Dulcinea, 2024

1 in 478,000

Dulcinea 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dulcinea: meaning, origin, and history

Sweetly, melodiously, through dulce

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dulcinea means

Dulcinea belongs to the name family reached through Dulcinea → dulce. Its meaning is “sweetly, melodiously”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dulcinea is used in Spanish.

Dulcinea comes through Latin dulce.

Dulcinea is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include dulce.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Dulcinea is pronounced /dulθiˈnea/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 325 girls were recorded with the name Dulcinea between 1921 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,930 in 1934.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dulcinea?

Dulcinea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dulcinea 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dulcinea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dulcineas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dulcinea was born before 1997 — so the typical Dulcinea is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
307
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Choose a decade

2000s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Dulcinea 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (16)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,930
1934

Spellings of Dulcinea

Dulcinea is not the most common spelling — Dulcie is, with 83.5% against Dulcinea's 16.5%.

  • Dulcie83.5%1,647
  • Dulcinea16.5%325

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 Dulcinea is used

Across 1910–2025, Dulcinea was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 647,746 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Dulcinea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dulcinea around the world

Where Dulcinea 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
    2020–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Dulcinea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,930
1934
Peak year
2006
16 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
325
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dulcinea

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

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Sibling names for Dulcinea

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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