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Dulse!

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Oddly enough, it wouldn't work in my area, for a strictly local reason-dulse!
Dulse, if you arn't familiar with it, is a sea-weed, dried and eaten as a snack, like potato chips. Delicious, for those who were brought up on it, though I'm told it's a acquired taste.

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So, it would be like calling a child" Potato Chippie".

I don't mind it at all actually.

I love Dulcie, but really only as a nickname (for Dulcinea).

I think its very cute and I like the meaning.

It's just a tad hillbillyish to me.

It's growing on me but I wish I liked it more as it is related to my surname so it would be a good way to honour my side of the family if I married. A friend of a friend of mine has a baby named Dulcie. It surprised me to see it being used as it is old fashioned without being fashionable yet like Molly and Tilly (and she doesn't strike me as a Daily Telegraph person either).

It reminds me of a book I read when I was little. It was about a cat and mouse who were best friends, and the cat had a mother named Dulcie-Maud. So, when I hear it, I always think of cats.

I rather like it!

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I am not sure why, though. I guess it has that old fashioned, clunky ring to it i enjoy. I also like Dulce.

I'm a bit bored with the current glut of -ie names here, but I like this one. It has a happy sound, and fits its meaning. The only Dulcie I ever met was someone I once worked with who must be 70 now. She was from Fiji.