Comments for the name Dulcinea

I could give this name to a horse but never to a child.

Dulcinea is Don Quijote's ideal of a pefect woman, an image he projects onto Aldonza, a common serving maid. She appears in both the novel and the musical Man of la Mancha. Sophia Loren portrayed her in the movie of the musical.

Pronounced dul-cin-AY-ah.

This can be pronounced "dool-thee-NAY-ah" in Castillian Spanish or "dool-see-NAY-ah" in Latin American Spanish. But I've also heard "dol-see-NAY-ah" in the musical "The Man of La Mancha".

So pretty, but too daring for most parents to use (I say "most" because celebrities can get away with naming their kids anything; and this is WAY better name than "Apple", ugh). I just don't have the balls to use it, myself.

I think it's a wonderful hopeful name. I am married to an Italian and his family has a tradition of naming the eldest son Michael. I respect that so because my name is Darcy I wanted to find a girls name with Spanish roots should we have a girl this will be her name.

The wife of Ulrich Braeker, author of "The Life Story and Real Adventures of the Poor Man of Toggenburg".

The name is pronounced Dul-cin-AY-uh in Tarkio's song "Eva Luna."

In Don Quixote, Dulcinea's real name was Aldonza. According to the footnotes on the Edith Grossman translation, "Aldonza, considered to be a common, rustic name, had comic connotations". Don Quixote decided his love interest needed a more dignified name and chose Dulcinea, partly because it resembled her original name (both Aldonza and Dulcinea have the a, l, d, n and s-sound, c and z being pronounced s in Cervantes's time).