Dulce vs Dulcie

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Dulce Dulcie

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 140 years in which either name was published, Dulcie for 76 years and Dulce for 64 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1885–1952 Dulcie ahead
• 1953 Dulce ahead
• 1954–1955 Dulcie ahead
• 1956 Dulce ahead
• 1957–1958 Dulcie ahead
• 1959–1967 Dulce ahead
• 1968–1970 Dulcie ahead
• 1971 Dulce ahead
• 1972–1973 Dulcie ahead
• 1974–2025 Dulce ahead

Side by side

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 Dulcies alive today are over 53; half the Dulces are over 18. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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