Dulce
#770 for girls in 2025, 352 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 1,285 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,306since 1914
Dulce over time
Rank among girls' names. Dulce has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #770 | 352 | — | |
| 2024 | #664 | 438 | — | |
| 2023 | #773 | 364 | — | |
| 2022 | #783 | 363 | — | |
| 2021 | #837 | 329 | — | |
| 2020 | #737 | 371 | — | |
| 2019 | #878 | 306 | — | |
| 2018 | #915 | 293 | — | |
| 2017 | #770 | 360 | — | |
| 2016 | #750 | 380 | — | |
| 2015 | #663 | 430 | — | |
| 2014 | #664 | 431 | — | |
| 2013 | #561 | 521 | — | |
| 2012 | #575 | 509 | — | |
| 2011 | #416 | 762 | — | |
| 2010 | #410 | 768 | — | |
| 2009 | #346 | 943 | — | |
| 2008 | #305 | 1,095 | — | |
| 2007 | #264 | 1,285 | — | |
| 2006 | #269 | 1,221 | — | |
| 2005 | #384 | 815 | — | |
| 2004 | #460 | 650 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #490 | 593 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #493 | 564 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #426 | 659 | — | |
| 2000 | #600 | 421 | — | |
| 1999 | #718 | 316 | — | |
| 1998 | #693 | 327 | — | |
| 1997 | #668 | 326 | — | |
| 1996 | #678 | 322 | — | |
| 1995 | #700 | 301 | — | |
| 1994 | #589 | 384 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #618 | 369 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #649 | 345 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #633 | 354 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #911 | 210 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,137 | 145 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #1,261 | 116 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,162 | 126 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,210 | 115 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,096 | 132 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,157 | 117 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,114 | 121 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,417 | 86 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,294 | 98 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,363 | 92 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,442 | 84 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,050 | 46 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,463 | 35 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,060 | 42 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,311 | 32 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,482 | 25 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
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| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
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| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | — | |
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| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dulce! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Dulce is popular in 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#315 · 1 in 1,605
- Texas#355 · 1 in 2,037
- California#366 · 1 in 2,040
- Oregon#479 · 1 in 2,708
- Washington#485 · 1 in 2,861
Best ever in a state: #111 in Arizona, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | #315 | 17 | 1 in 1,605 |
| Texas | #355 | 67 | 1 in 2,037 |
| California | #366 | 115 | 1 in 2,040 |
| Oregon | #479 | 6 | 1 in 2,708 |
| Washington | #485 | 10 | 1 in 2,861 |
| Illinois | #570 | 19 | 1 in 3,819 |
| Florida | #928 | 9 | 1 in 8,097 |
| Georgia | #966 | 5 | 1 in 8,185 |
| New York | #1,050 | 12 | 1 in 8,960 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dulce
- 106 spots since 2024 (#664 → #770)
- 33 spots since 2020 (#737 → #770)
- 107 spots since 2015 (#663 → #770)
- Biggest jump: 278 spots in 1991 (#911 → #633)
- Biggest drop: 159 spots in 2012 (#416 → #575)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2007 at #264 (1,285 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,496 girls born in 2007 were named Dulce (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,566 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 40.6% of all girls named Dulce (8,246) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 29 | #3,618 (1914) | #4,003 |
| 1920s | 10 | #4,851 (1926) | #4,912 |
| 1930s | 16 | #4,047 (1930) | #4,240 |
| 1940s | 23 | #3,393 (1949) | #4,190 |
| 1950s | 97 | #3,106 (1953) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 155 | #2,482 (1968) | #3,401 |
| 1970s | 351 | #1,442 (1979) | #2,669 |
| 1980s | 1,148 | #1,096 (1985) | #1,221 |
| 1990s | 3,254 | #589 (1994) | #686 |
| 2000s | 8,246 | #264 (2007) | #404 |
| 2010s | 4,760 | #410 (2010) | #660 |
| 2020s | 2,217 | #664 (2024) | #761 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dulce in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 5,842 of them was named Dulce, which outranked 95.6% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.