girls:
19.5k births since 1914
#1047 (82nd percentile)
boys:
49 births since 1989
#4537 (1st percentile)
overall:
19.6k births since 1914
#1836 (76th percentile)
The name Dulce is the #1,836 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,558 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 76.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,047 (81.7% percentile) for all time with 19,509 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,537 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1989.
Dulce first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Dulce is available in 87 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (87 years for girls and 8 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dulce has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dulce reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 73.9% percentile (ranked #258) with 607 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 607 births per million (ranked 73.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dulce ranks #612 for girls (35.4% percentile) with 206 births per million, which is 33.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dulce reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dulce".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Dulce. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.1% confident that Dulce is pronounced as DUEL-seh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DUEL-say, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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