Dulce vs Dulcia
American parents have registered 20,355 Dulces since 1880, against 14 Dulcias. Dulce is still ahead, with 352 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dulce Dulcia
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Dulce for 88 years and Dulcia for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Dulce | Dulcia | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 20,355 | 14 |
| Most in one year | 1,285 | 9 |
| Babies in 2025 | 352 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 20,000 | 1 |
| Median age today | 18 | 93 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 1925 |
| Best rank | 264th girls | 3,362nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 770th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1925 |
| Girls / boys | 20,306 / 49 | 14 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Dulcias alive today are over 93; half the Dulces are over 18. That is 75 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dulce and Dulcia.