Dulcemaria
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- dool-seh-mah-REE-ah
- Origin
- Spanish
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Dulcemaria is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “sweet Mary”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Dulcemaria mean?
Spanish: Spanish compound of Dulce and Maria
“sweet Mary”
Joins Dulce 'sweet' and Maria, echoing the Catholic devotion to the Sweet Name of Mary (Dulce Nombre de Maria).
Is Dulcemaria a girl's or a boy's name?
Dulcemaria is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dulcemaria in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Dulcemaria, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 64 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.
2025 had fewer girls named Dulcemaria than any year since 2000.
Half of all the girls named Dulcemaria in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Dulcemaria in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,733 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,456 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,795 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,241 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,046 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,867 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,179 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,560 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,419 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,822 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,887 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,109 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,294 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,442 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,580 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
Nicknames for Dulcemaria
Names like Dulcemaria
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Dulce, Ximena, Analucia, Solana, Xaria, Amaria, Montserrat, Lucero, Aria, Lucia, Azucena, Xiomara
More Spanish names
Santiago, Lola, Xavier, Amaya, Alaia, Diego, Rio, Cruz, Elian, Jesus, Javier, Esmeralda, Amayah, Reina, Cesar, Sierra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dulcemaria: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dulcemaria, updated 20 October 2026.