Dulcie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dulcie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dulcie: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #539, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#539highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1072
1997	#946
1998	#1165
1999	#816
2000	#728
2001	#732
2002	#620
2003	#818
2004	#821
2005	#736
2006	#665
2007	#666
2008	#650
2009	#689
2010	#674
2011	#658
2012	#722
2013	#652
2014	#663
2015	#775
2016	#585
2017	#753
2018	#767
2019	#996
2020	#771
2021	#594
2022	#963
2023	#671
2024	#539

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1072 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #539 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #539 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Dulcie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dulcie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	84	4 of 10	21
2000s	424	10 of 10	42
2010sbusiest	553	10 of 10	55
2020s	274	5 of 10	55

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 55 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births fell by 29, from 65 to 36.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dulcie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #539 in England and Wales in 2024.

Dulcie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#539	72	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#671	54	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#963	36	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#594	65	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#996	35	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#767	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#753	53	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#585	72	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#775	50	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#663	60	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#652	62	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#722	56	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#658	60	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#674	55	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#689	53	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#650	57	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#666	52	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#665	47	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#736	40	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#821	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#620	44	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#732	34	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#728	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#816	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#946	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1072	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #539, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 72 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#539position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
72births registered in its largest year, 201650 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aditya · #538, 28y
Muskaan · #538, 26y
Khushi · #542, 24y
Brennan · #543, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Issa · #539, 29y
Aditya · #538, 28y
Devan · #540, 29y
Laylah · #540, 28y

Dulcie was ranked #539 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dulcie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dulcie without appearing here.

Dulcie moved ahead of

Sinead Compare
In 2015 they stood at #775 and #722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #585 and #1241.
Tayla Compare
In 2015 they stood at #775 and #760 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #585 and #1241.
Aimee Compare
In 2020 they stood at #771 and #749 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #594 and #1195.
Cheryl Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1165 and #1036 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #816 and #1393.

Moved ahead of Dulcie

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #658 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #722 and #284.
Mina Compare
In 2021 they stood at #594 and #634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #963 and #562.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #996 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #771 and #460.
Beau Compare
In 2002 they stood at #620 and #809 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #818 and #545.

Moved the opposite way to Dulcie

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Dulcie

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dulcie went from #1072 to #539 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #539 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dulcie

Dulcie at a glance

What the data shows

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Dulcie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Dulcie at a glance

Dulcie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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