Given name & surname
Dulce
“a very sweet woman”
Dulce is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a very sweet woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a very sweet woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dulce through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20,355
- 49 boys · 20,306 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 1,285 babies
- 2025
- 352
- #771 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +8%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 352 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 771 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 8.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,285 in 2007. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (64). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 29,664 as a first name in 2020; 285 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dulce’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Dulce has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dulcie. Dulce has a related form in Dulcie. Dulce has a related form in Dulcinea.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dulce has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
8 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 32
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Dulcievariant · English
- Dulcyvariant
- Dulcineavariant
- Dulciavariant
- Delcinevariant
- Delcinavariant
- Duldniavariant
- Duldnevariant
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- Duldavariant
- Dukineavariant
- Dukinevariant
- Dukievariant
- Dukavariant
- Dulciniavariant
- Dulseevariant
- Dulsinevariant
- Dulsibellevariant
- Dulsibellvariant
- Dulsianavariant
- Dulsiavariant
- Dulseavariant
- Dulcinevariant
- Dulcinavariant
- Dulcibellevariant
- Dulcibellavariant
- Dulcianavariant
- Dulcivariant
- Dulceavariant
- Dulceevariant · English
- Delsinevariant
- Dulcéevariant · English
- Dulcévariant · English
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dulce
- Dulce MaríaMexican actressborn 1985
- Dulce PontesPortuguese songwriter and singerborn 1969
- Dulce María LoynazCuban writer (1902–1997)
- Dulce ChacónSpanish poet, novelist and playwright (1954–2003)
- Dulce Maria CardosoPortuguese writerborn 1964
- Dulce of LeónLeonese infanta1194–1248
- Dulce NunesBrazilian actress and singer-songwriter1929–2020
- Dulce María Sauri RianchoMexican politician; governor of Yucatánborn 1951
- Dulce GarcíaCuban javelin thrower (1965–2019)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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