Dolce

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Dolce is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English59%

  A soft-toned organ stop.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish15%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Dolce in Spanish.

• Italian7.6%

  sweet

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  forma italiana de Dulcis

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• French5.6%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Dolce in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Dolce is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Italy

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Dolcè, Dõlçė, Dolçe

• French surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

  Also written D'Olce, Dolcé

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Dolce is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Polish, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dolec

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Croatian, 1. reg. slatko 2. glazb. oznaka za interpretaciju kojom se traži nježno, ljupko, blago izvođenje

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

• In Romanian, DÓLCE adv. (Muz.; indică modul de execuție) Delicat, cu blândețe.

  as a word·DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Ludovico Dolceb. 1508ITItalian theorist of painting (1508–1568)
• Ignazio Dolceb. 1933ITItalian actor and film director
• Domenico Dolceb. 1958ITItalian fashion designer (born 1958)
• Lucia Dolceb. 1964GBacademic, japanologist (1964-)
• Mike Dolceb. 1976USAmerican trainer, coach, author, and motivational speaker
• Francesco Dolceb. 1986ITItalian computer scientist (born 1986)
• Darcie Dolceb. 1992USAmerican pornographic actress
• Vincenzo Dolceb. 1995ITItalian water polo player
• Frank Dolceb. 1996USchild actor
• Francesco Maria DolceItalian art collector and engraver

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Dolce?

A machine transcription gives /ˈdoʊɫˌtʃeɪ/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Dolce mean, and where does it come from?

A soft-toned organ stop. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How common is the name Dolce?

In the United States, the national register counted 2,673 people named Dolce in 2010, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.

In which country does Dolce have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Dolce in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dolce.