Delories
Feminine · “Sorrows”
Delories ends in the letters English uses to make plurals, and the name it respells is already plural in Spanish. Stories, glories, memories: the -ies ending belongs to more than one of something, and it has landed here on a word that was more than one of something to begin with.
How old is the name Delories?
Delories first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Delories alive today was born around 1941, making them about 84 years old. About 600 people named Delories are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Delories most popular?
Delories peaked in 1941, reaching #1041 nationally. See the whole 1941 chart.
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Where it comes from
From dolor to Delories
The story of Delories
The devotion has a fixed picture. In painting and in church statuary the Mater Dolorosa is shown with swords in her heart, and the number is seven, one for each of the episodes the tradition counts: the prophecy in the temple, the flight into Egypt, the boy lost and found, the meeting on the road, the crucifixion, the body taken down, the burial. Sculptors made them literal, so that Spanish and Latin American churches hold figures with seven metal blades radiating from the chest, and Mexican folk art repeats the image everywhere. A family naming a daughter for that devotion was invoking a specific and countable set of griefs rather than sadness in general, and the plural in the name is doing real grammatical work.
Meaning
Sorrows
Dolores is the plural of the Spanish word for a grief, and the plural is the point: it names a devotion to the Virgin under the heading of her sorrows, which were counted and listed. The name does not describe a child. The English-looking plural ending on this spelling is a coincidence of letters, not a translation, though it happens to land in the right place.
How the name formed
- dolor
- Dolores
- Delores
- Delories
Related forms: Dolores · Addolorata · Dores
Pronouncing Delories
duh-LOR-eess
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The written -ies invites the English plural reading, which would end in a z sound; most families that use this spelling say a plain s, exactly as in Dolores.
Nicknames for Delories
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 194149 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1041reached in 1941
- Change vs 1969
- +20.0%6 in 1971, 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.
Delories in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dolores in Spanish — same name
- Addolorata in Italian — related form
- Dores in Portuguese — related form
Deloriess among us
people named Delories are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Delories 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
The trade-off
- The spoken name is entirely established in English and Spanish alike.
- Lola and Dee are two short forms with nothing in common, one continental and one plainly American.
- The devotion behind it is documented and specific rather than vague.
- The ending looks like an English plural and will be read as one, which invites a z sound the name does not have.
- Dolores and Delores are both far commoner and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- The meaning is grief, and while nobody intended it as a description of the child, people ask.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deloriess are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Delories are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Delories in 2025?
- Delories is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Delories will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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