Delorse
Feminine · “Sorrows”
Delorse removes a syllable from Dolores and the syllable it removes was carrying the stress. Most contractions take out something unstressed and inaudible; this one takes out the middle of the name and leaves two syllables where there were three, which is a real change rather than a spelling choice.
How old is the name Delorse?
Delorse first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Delorse alive today was born around 1949, making them about 76 years old. About 700 people named Delorse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Delorse most popular?
Delorse peaked in 1934, reaching #1236 nationally. See the whole 1934 chart.
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Where it comes from
From dolor to Delorse
The story of Delorse
Almost all the Spanish devotional names are abstractions and almost all of them go to daughters. Consuelo is consolation, Socorro is help, Amparo is shelter, Soledad is solitude, Mercedes is mercies, Esperanza is hope, Rosario is the rosary, and Dolores is sorrows; every one is a quality or an object attached to a title of the Virgin rather than a person's name, and the masculine equivalents are far fewer and far rarer. A Spanish-speaking family naming a daughter this way was not describing her; they were placing her under a particular devotion, and the grammar of the name makes that clear in a way English word-names do not.
Meaning
Sorrows
The Spanish plural of the word for a grief, taken from a devotional title of the Virgin. The plural is the point, since the sorrows in question were counted and listed. The name honors a devotion and does not describe a child, which is true of the whole Spanish class it belongs to.
How the name formed
- dolor
- Dolores
- Delorse
Related forms: Dolores
Pronouncing Delorse
duh-LORSS
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The standard Spanish form has three with the weight in the middle, so this is a genuinely different shape and not only a different spelling.
Nicknames for Delorse
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
- 1918
- Most girls named
- 195838 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1236reached in 1934
- Change vs 1977
- 0.0%5 in 1984, 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.
Delorse in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dolores in Spanish — same name
Delorses among us
people named Delorse 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
Delorse 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
- Two syllables is easier for daily use than three and the change is real.
- Lola and Dee are two short forms with nothing in common.
- The devotion behind it is documented and specific.
- Dolores and Delores are both far commoner and are said differently.
- The meaning is grief, which nobody intended as a description but people ask about.
- It is strongly dated to the early twentieth century in American records.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Delorse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Delorse in 2025?
- Delorse is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Delorse will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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