Delcie

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Delcie by the numbers

Delcie was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 47 babies in 1915, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Delcie

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Delcie. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Dolciesweet, gentle; a variant spelling of Dulcie116 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Dulciesweet; a form of Dulciana86 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Darciefrom Arcy; dark one513 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Dulcesweet355 in the US (2017)
  • Deliafrom Delos; epithet of Artemis170 in the US (2017)
  • Delaniedark challenger; descendant of Dubhshláine; a form of Delaney145 in the US (2017)

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