Dulcie
Dulcie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 665th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196841 births
- Best rank
- #665in 1889
- Since 1885
- 1,639people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,639 girls have been named Dulcie in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 41 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dulcie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 35 | |
| 1890s | 145 | |
| 1900s | 103 | |
| 1910s | 198 | |
| 1920s | 266 | |
| 1930s | 143 | |
| 1940s | 104 | |
| 1950s | 108 | |
| 1960s | 130 | |
| 1970s | 176 | |
| 1980s | 60 | |
| 1990s | 33 | |
| 2000s | 61 | |
| 2010s | 52 | |
| 2020s | 25 |
In 1968, its biggest year
Dulcie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Dulcie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Helgapeak 1961
- Dagmarpeak 1915
- Elfriedapeak 1917
- Lalapeak 1921
- Rossiepeak 1919
- Signepeak 1915
- Friedapeak 1916
- Zeliapeak 2015
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.