Delores
Masculine · “sorrows”
Delores is given to girls far more often — 117,821 girls against 430 boys since 1880. See Delores as a girl name
Delores entered the US charts in 1922, peaked at #1368 in 1930, is rarely given in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Delores?
Delores first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Delores alive today was born around 1938, making them about 87 years old. About 100 people named Delores are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Delores most popular?
Delores peaked in 1930, reaching #1368 nationally. See the whole 1930 chart.
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Where it comes from
From dolores to Delores
The story of Delores
Spanish Catholic naming built a whole family of women's names out of Marian titles — Mercedes for mercies, Consuelo for consolation, Soledad for solitude, Dolores for sorrows — each of them a phrase reduced to its distinctive noun. Dolores traveled into American English through Spanish-speaking communities and then, in the early twentieth century, spread far beyond them. The Delores spelling is the anglicized one, and it peaked in the 1930s alongside the original.
Meaning
sorrows
From the Spanish dolores, 'sorrows', the plural of dolor. It refers to the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin, a devotion with its own feast day, and the name is a shortening of the full Marian title rather than a description of anyone. Delores is the American respelling of Dolores.
How the name formed
- dolores
- María de los Dolores
- Dolores
- Delores
Related forms: Dolores · Lola · Addolorata · Deloris
Pronouncing Delores
duh-LOR-iss
Three syllables, stress on the middle. Spanish speakers say doh-LOH-res with a fuller final syllable.
Nicknames for Delores
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1922
- Most boys named
- 193028 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1368reached in 1930
- Change vs 1962
- +20.0%6 in 1964, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Delores in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dolores in Spanish — same name
- Lola in Spanish — related form
- Addolorata in Italian — related form
- Deloris in English — spelling variant
Deloress among us
people named Delores are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Delores sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
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- How many Deloress are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Delores are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Delores in 2025?
- Delores is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Delores with classmates?
- Delores will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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