Dulcie
Dulcie was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,189 among girls’ names; 1,647 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dulcie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dulcie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dulcie is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “sweet” (dulcis).
From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) in the 19th century, probably inspired by earlier names like Dowsabel and Spanish Dulcinea.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dulcie?
#11,189 among girls’ names, 2025
Dulcie fell from #11,147 in 2015 to #11,189 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 5.0 per million.
41 babies in 1968, the peak
Dulcie peaked in 1968, when 41 girls were given it, #1,862 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,189 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,373 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,957 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,890 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,493 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,642 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,951 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,293 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,147 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,274 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #17,601 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,518 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,761 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,071 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,862 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,905 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,049 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,860 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,605 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,923 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,650 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,082 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,836 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,893 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,726 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,810 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,989 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,339 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,818 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,121 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,451 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,343 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,473 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,940 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,421 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,858 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,182 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,718 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,190 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,992 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,778 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,702 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,284 | 21.7 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,993 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,960 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,365 | 17.8 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,862 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,623 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,590 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,952 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,132 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,472 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,626 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,024 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,620 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,011 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,529 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,542 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,856 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,613 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,534 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,422 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,330 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,944 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,652 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,866 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,516 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,283 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,726 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,186 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,306 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,572 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,882 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,331 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,771 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,258 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,225 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,896 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,615 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,606 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,193 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,162 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,759 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,041 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,774 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,689 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,902 | 17.6 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,843 | 18.6 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,858 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,451 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,794 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,438 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,348 | 28.4 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,384 | 27.5 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,612 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,577 | 22.5 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,792 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,639 | 21.1 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,347 | 28.5 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,498 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,280 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,370 | 28.7 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,256 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,817 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,814 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,104 | 41.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,680 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,027 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 20 | #829 | 68.6 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,708 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,479 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 15 | #912 | 56.8 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,379 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 15 | #984 | 50.0 |
| 1899 | 14 | #887 | 60.1 |
| 1898 | 19 | #774 | 73.4 |
| 1897 | 17 | #767 | 72.6 |
| 1896 | 17 | #796 | 71.5 |
| 1895 | 12 | #948 | 51.4 |
| 1894 | 15 | #792 | 67.3 |
| 1893 | 13 | #833 | 61.1 |
| 1892 | 15 | #767 | 70.6 |
| 1891 | 13 | #759 | 70.1 |
| 1890 | 10 | #882 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 15 | #665 | 84.1 |
| 1888 | 8 | #977 | 44.8 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,067 | 41.1 |
| 1885 | 6 | #956 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dulcie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dulcie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 128 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dulcie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dulcie, and how old are they?
An estimated 693 Americans named Dulcie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 36 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 945 people named Dulcie (944 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 22,207 babies since 1880, Dulcie is the second most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 360 babies (2.2%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dulcie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dulcie and names like it
- Compare Dulcie and DulceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDulcie peaked in 1968.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dulcie since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Dulcie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Dulcie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dulcie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.