Dulce

• Spanish:/dulθe/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Portuguese:/dulsɨ/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Dulce is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish69%

  sweet (having a pleasant taste, especially induced by sugar)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Latín dulcis, "dulce"; por extensión, "grato, agradable, tierno".

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Portuguese13%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Dulce in Portuguese.

• English11%

  sweet

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dulce, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Maite
• Araceli
• Beatriz
• Luz
• Marisol

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Dulce is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Dulcé, D̥̊ů̥l̥̊c̥̊e̥̊, Dulcè, Dülcë, Dûlcê

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Dulcé

• Lao given name11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Dülcë, Dulcé, Dûlçë, Dülčë, Dülčê

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Dulce is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Romanian, adj. 1. Dulc /escu (Sur XVIII) ; -escul (Dm) ; -esti (Sd XI 85). 2. Dulceag, P., mold., act. < adj. dulceag. 3. Dulcici (Dm). 4. Du/ceafet, loan (Schei II) < subst. Dul/ea, -iu v. Radu III 34 a-e. Dulghi v. Durg 1. Dulba v. D o 1 g II 3.

  as a name·Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

• Delicioso

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Latin, synonym of dulciter: sweetly, agreeably, delightfully

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Dulce Chacónb. 1954ESSpanish poet, novelist and playwright (1954–2003)
• Dulce Pontesb. 1969PTPortuguese songwriter and singer
• Dulce Maríab. 1985MXMexican actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

63 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Dulce?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /dulθe/; in Portuguese /dulsɨ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Dulce mean, and where does it come from?

sweet (having a pleasant taste, especially induced by sugar) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Which countries have the most people named Dulce?

Mondonomo estimates about 180 thousand people named Dulce in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dulce. After it come Guatemala, United States, Brazil and Angola; the country table on this page ranks them.

Is Dulce a male or female name?

Dulce is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Venezuela (asosab) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.

How common is the name Dulce?

In the United States, the national register counted 29,664 people named Dulce in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.

How common is Dulce compared with other names?

In Mexico, Dulce is the 171st most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.