Given name & surname
Douce
“one who is sweet”
Douce is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one who is sweet.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who is sweet.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
Douce’s family of names
In French usage, Douce has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Dulce.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Douce
- Douce I of ProvenceCountess suo jure of Provence (1090-1129)
- Douce II of ProvenceFrench noble (1163-1172)
- Douce Namwezi N'IbambaCongolese journalist (* 1989)
- Douce DibondoFrench journalist and writerborn 1993
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