Dulcie

What Dulcie means

Means “sweet”

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

Source: Wiktionary, “Dulcie” (revision 75909727), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Dulcie?

US: Steady: #10866 in 2015, #10917 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #775 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1889, when 15 girls got the name (#657 that year). First in the US records in 1885.

How common

• About 1 in 200,908 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,945 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Dulcie is #10917 in the US and #463 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Dulcie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Dolcie0 US · 116 E&W
• Delcie7 US
• Dollcie0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Dulcie

Girls

• Liana#385Editor’s note Up from #525 in 2015 to #385 in 2025 in the US
• Cordelia#980Editor’s note Down from #949 in 2015 to #980 in 2025 in the US
• Valery#743Editor’s note Up from #1,209 in 2015 to #743 in 2025 in the US
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Roselyn#979Form of Rosalie, meaning “rose”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*

For a brother

• Blaze#781Editor’s note Down from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025 in the US
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Max#180Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #48 vs #180 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Dulcie’s. Rank is US 2025.