Meaning not yet researched.
Dulce: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 352 in 2025. Its best rank was #264 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #264 in 2007; #771 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dulce in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#771 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #264.
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Dulce: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 352 girls in 2025. Peak: #264 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 1,285 (2007).
In 2025, 352 US girls were named Dulce, making it the 771st most common girls’ name of the year, down 107 places from #664 in 2024. That is 86 fewer than the 438 girls named Dulce in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #264, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,285. For comparison, it was #663 in 2015 and #3,753 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dulce in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 20,355 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,263 babies named Dulce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,556 US girls were named Dulce; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 438. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,566 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dulce ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #430 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Dolce are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dolce (170).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Dulce in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #430 | — |
| Maryland | 11 | #471 | — |
| Texas | 62 | #513 | #366 |
| California | 64 | #517 | #377 |
| Florida | 29 | #603 | #1,071 |
| Georgia | 16 | #652 | #627 |
| Washington | 9 | #697 | #565 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #698 | #549 |
| Arizona | 9 | #704 | #541 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #733 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #763 | #972 |
| Illinois | 11 | #820 | #563 |
| Virginia | 8 | #869 | #1,265 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #876 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #915 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #943 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,102 | #1,087 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 352 | #771 | — | — |
| 2024 | 438 | #664 | — | — |
| 2023 | 364 | #774 | — | — |
| 2022 | 363 | #783 | — | — |
| 2021 | 329 | #838 | — | — |
| 2020 | 371 | #737 | — | — |
| 2019 | 306 | #879 | — | — |
| 2018 | 293 | #917 | — | — |
| 2017 | 360 | #770 | — | — |
| 2016 | 380 | #750 | — | — |
| 2015 | 430 | #663 | — | — |
| 2014 | 431 | #664 | — | — |
| 2013 | 521 | #561 | — | — |
| 2012 | 509 | #575 | — | — |
| 2011 | 762 | #416 | — | — |
| 2010 | 768 | #410 | — | — |
| 2009 | 943 | #346 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,095 | #305 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,285 | #264 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,221 | #269 | — | — |
| 2005 | 815 | #384 | — | — |
| 2004 | 650 | #460 | 5 | #11,856 |
| 2003 | 593 | #490 | 6 | #9,930 |
| 2002 | 564 | #493 | 6 | #9,718 |
| 2001 | 659 | #426 | — | — |
| 2000 | 421 | #601 | — | — |
| 1999 | 316 | #718 | — | — |
| 1998 | 327 | #693 | — | — |
| 1997 | 326 | #668 | — | — |
| 1996 | 322 | #679 | — | — |
| 1995 | 301 | #701 | — | — |
| 1994 | 384 | #589 | 7 | #7,189 |
| 1993 | 369 | #618 | 6 | #7,917 |
| 1992 | 345 | #649 | 5 | #8,810 |
| 1991 | 354 | #633 | 8 | #6,113 |
| 1990 | 210 | #912 | — | — |
| 1989 | 145 | #1,141 | 6 | #7,246 |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1986 | 115 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1985 | 132 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1984 | 117 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1983 | 121 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1981 | 98 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1980 | 92 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1979 | 84 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,033 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,570 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,622 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,037 | — | — |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,484 | — | — |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,630 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,753 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,967 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,500 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,168 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,170 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,003 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,907 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,770 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).