Dulcie

Usage

Dulcie has been among the top 1,000 names for girls in England and Wales since 1997. It was among the top 100 names for girls born in New Zealand between 1907 and 1931. It was among the top 1,000 names for girls born in the United States at different times between 1880 and 1905, but then declined in use.{{cite web | access-date = 3 January 2024 | access-date = 3 January 2024

Notable people

• Dulcie Boling (born 1936), Australian businesswoman and magazine editor
• Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976), English watercolor and oil painter
• Dulcie Cooper (1903–1981), Australian actress
• Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor
• Dulcie Foo Fat (born 1946), British-born Canadian landscape painter
• Dulcie Gray (1915–2011), British actress
• Dulcie Hartwell (1915–2012), South Africa trade union leader
• Dulcie Holland (1913–2000), Australian composer and music educator
• Dulcie Howes (1908–1993), South African ballet dancer
• Dulcie Markham (1914–1976), Australian prostitute and associate of gangland figures
• Dulcie Ethel Adunola Oguntoye (1923–2018), English-born Nigerian jurist who was the country's second female judge
• Dulcie Mary Pillers (1891–1961), English medical illustrator
• Dulcie September (1935–1988), South African anti-apartheid political activist who was assassinated
• Dulcie Tei (), Tongan politician
• Dulcie Wood (), South Africa former cricketer

Fictional characters

• the title character of Defining Dulcie, a young adult novel by Paul Acampora
• the title character of Dulcie's Adventure, a 1916 American silent film
• a computer in "Dulcie and Decorum", a science fiction short story by Damon Knight
• Dulcie Collins, one of the main characters in the Australian series Deadloch
• Dulcie Duveen, Arthur Hastings' future wife in The Murder on the Links detective novel by Dame Agatha Christie
• Dulcie Maes, in the film adaptation of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas musical
• Dulcie Wintle, in the 1957 children's novel Wintle's Wonders by Noel Streatfeild

Notes

References

1. (2006). "Oxford Dictionary of First Names". Oxford University Press.