Dulce

Where Dulce comes from

From Spanish Dulce.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dulce
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,618 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Dulce Pontes born
    Portuguese songwriter and singer
  3. 1985
    Dulce María born
    Mexican actress
  4. 2007
    Peak, #264
    1,285 babies named Dulce — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #575.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Dulcie.
Namesakes
  • Dulce María · Mexican actress, born 1985
  • Dulce Pontes · Portuguese songwriter and singer, born 1969
  • Dulce Chacón · Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, 1954–2003
  • Dulce of León · Leonese infanta, 1194–1248
  • Dulce García · Cuban javelin thrower, 1965–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.