Dulcie is a female first name.
Recently, the name Dulcie has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Dulcie. That means that a girl named Dulcie is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dulcie.
Dulcie is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2018, where the name Dulcie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Dulcie and were born in the USA in 2018, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Dulcie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1889, it ranked on position 626 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dulcie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Dulcie has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 5 times and thus landed on position 13,280 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 5 girls with the name Dulcie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The first name Dulcie is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 39 Americans in total bear this name. And these 39 women are located in only five states: California, Kentucky, Missouri, New York and Wisconsin (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Dulcie and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Dulcie in relation to it’s female population is Kentucky. And yet even there, only one in 167,289 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Dulcie.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Dulcie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Dulcie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dulcie, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Unicorn
Lion
Cat
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dulcie
Dulcie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
U
L
C
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
U
L
C
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dulcie sounds like this:
