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Dilcia
How to Pronounce Dilcia
Pronounced DEEL-see-uh /หdiหl.si.ษ/Medium
Meaning: Dilcia is a given name well known in Central America, particularly Honduras. It most likely derives from the Latin dulcis, 'sweet,' the same root behind Dulce and Dulcinea, reshaped through Spanish into a soft, distinctive form. It is a genuine heritage name rather than a modern coinage, though the precise development is not fully documented.Low
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U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880โpresent). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Dilcia is a heritage name of Central America, worn especially by Honduran families. The most convincing reading traces it to the Latin dulcis, 'sweet,' by way of Spanish, placing it in the same family as Dulce and Dulcinea. Its exact path is not thoroughly recorded, so we hold the meaning with some caution, but its cultural home and warm sense are clear.
In the United States it was always rare, reaching about fifteen girls a year at its high point in the late nineteen-nineties and appearing from the early nineteen-seventies into the twenty-twenties, following immigration from Central America. A Dilcia from that peak is now in her twenties or thirties, and the name reads as a proud regional heritage choice rather than a mainstream American one.
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What does the name Dilcia mean?
It is a Central American Spanish name most likely from the Latin dulcis, 'sweet,' kin to Dulce.
How do you pronounce Dilcia?
It is said DEEL-see-uh /หdiหl.si.ษ/ - three syllables, stress on the first.
Is Dilcia a boy or girl name?
Dilcia is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Dilcia?
It was always rare in the United States, reaching only about fifteen girls a year at its best in the late nineteen-nineties.