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Dulse

Girl · DOOL-seh · Spanish

Dulse is a girls' name of Spanish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Dulse come from?

Spanish: probably a variant of Dulce 'sweet'; also an edible seaweed

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Is Dulse a girl's or a boy's name?

Dulse is a girls' name.

How popular is Dulse in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.

Half of all the girls named Dulse in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1985Busiest: 17 in 20012013
Dulse in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20137#13,145
20120–
20119#11,175
20100–
200913#8,884
200810#10,802
200717#7,390
200617#7,140
200510#10,123
20048#11,617
200313#7,993
200211#8,831
200117#6,317
200011#8,527
19998#10,338
199812#7,527
19977#10,831
19969#8,807
19956#11,778
199413#6,666
199315#5,949
19929#8,726
19919#8,580
19900–
19897#9,675
19885#11,792
19870–
19865#10,907
19855#10,672

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