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 1991
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#185 · 1 in 956
- California#264 · 1 in 1,414
- Texas#332 · 1 in 1,921
- Oregon#510 · 1 in 3,371
- Washington#513 · 1 in 3,438
Best ever in a state: #111 in Arizona, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | #185 | 27 | 1 in 956 |
| California | #264 | 185 | 1 in 1,414 |
| Texas | #332 | 71 | 1 in 1,921 |
| Oregon | #510 | 5 | 1 in 3,371 |
| Washington | #513 | 9 | 1 in 3,438 |
| Florida | #776 | 12 | 1 in 6,363 |
| Illinois | #825 | 11 | 1 in 7,049 |
| New York | #1,201 | 10 | 1 in 11,901 |
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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 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 5,297 of them was named Dulce, which outranked 95.9% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 252,541 of them was named Dulce, which outranked 38.4% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #5,521Zuriel9
- #5,942Dulce8
- #5,942Abid8
- #5,942Abrahm8
- #5,942Adetokunbo8
- #6,519Aaronmichael7
- #6,519Abayomi7
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Tied with 576 names at #5,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.