Deloris
Feminine · “sorrows”
Deloris is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 34,683 girls against 98 boys since 1880.
Deloris is the third American spelling of a Spanish devotional title. María de los Dolores — Mary of the Sorrows — gave Dolores, and English-speaking families reshaped it twice more.
How old is the name Deloris?
Deloris first appears in US birth records in 1899 — 126 years ago. The typical Deloris alive today was born around 1943, making them about 82 years old. About 17,500 people named Deloris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deloris most popular?
Deloris peaked in 1933, reaching #187 nationally. See the whole 1933 chart.
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Where it comes from
From dolores to Deloris
The story of Deloris
Spanish Catholic naming built a family of women's names from Marian titles — Mercedes for mercies, Consuelo for consolation, Soledad for solitude, Dolores for sorrows. Dolores traveled into American English through Spanish-speaking communities and then far beyond them in the early twentieth century, generating anglicized spellings as it went: Delores, Deloris, Dolores. This one peaked in the 1930s, alongside the others.
Meaning
sorrows
From the Spanish dolores, 'sorrows', the plural of dolor. The reference is to the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin, a devotion with its own feast day. The name is a phrase reduced to its distinctive noun, not a description of anyone.
How the name formed
- dolores
- María de los Dolores
- Dolores
- Deloris
Related forms: Dolores · Delores · Lola · Addolorata
Pronouncing Deloris
duh-LOR-iss
Three syllables, stress in the middle. All three American spellings are said the same way.
Nicknames for Deloris
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
- 1899
- Most girls named
- 1948944 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #187reached in 1933
- Change vs 2015
- +16.7%7 in 2022, from 6
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.
Deloris in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dolores in Spanish — spelling variant
- Delores in English — spelling variant
- Lola in Spanish — related form
- Addolorata in Italian — related form
Deloriss among us
people named Deloris 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
Deloris has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It belongs to a documented family of Spanish devotional names with an unusual and clear origin.
- Lola and Dee are two short forms at completely different registers.
- Recognized in both English and Spanish-speaking countries.
- Dolores is the original spelling and will often be assumed.
- The literal meaning is 'sorrows', which some families will want to weigh.
- It is firmly period-coded to the first half of the twentieth century.
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- How many Deloriss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 17,500 people named Deloris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deloris in 2025?
- Deloris is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Deloris will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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