Dolores
The girl's name Dolores has been in the national records since 1880, with 212,776 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,564th. About 69,000 Doloreses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dolores boys named Dolores
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 212,776
- Estimated living today
- 69,000
- Median age today
- 77
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 13th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,564th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 211,440 / 1,336
How old the living Doloreses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 212,776 babies given the name since 1880, about 69,000 are alive — 32 in every hundred. Roughly 870 of them are children and 53,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Doloress
- Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018)Irish musician
- Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989)Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician
- Dolores del Río (1904–1983)Mexican actress
- Dolores Costello (1903–1979)American actress
- Dolores Hart (born 1938)American Roman Catholic religious nun, and former actress
- Dolores Huerta (born 1930)American labor leader
- Dolores Gray (1924–2002)American actress
- Dolores Redondo (born 1969)Spanish novelist and restaurateur
People named Dolores with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dolores is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dolores is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (2.7×), New Mexico (2.6×), New Jersey (1.8×), Illinois (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1930
The most popular girls’ names the year Dolores peaked:
Dolores elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Dolores +2 spellings | 11,260 | 155th |
| Ireland girls | Dolores | 914 | 86th |
| England and Wales girls | Dolores | 226 | 1,311th |
| Belgium girls | Dolores | 22 | 1,094th |
| Poland girls | Dolores | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dolores: rank by region
In 2007, Dolores was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Dolores | 819 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Dolores among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Dolores | 20 | 153 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Dolores lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 159,919 women called Dolores were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sevilla | Dolores | 18,103 | 17.863 | 4 |
| Jaén | Dolores | 5,576 | 17.861 | 11 |
| Córdoba | Dolores | 6,929 | 17.532 | 7 |
| Almería | Dolores | 4,933 | 13.077 | 8 |
| Huelva | Dolores | 3,345 | 12.324 | 11 |
| Murcia | Dolores | 9,206 | 11.622 | 10 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Dolores against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.