Dolores

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dolores is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico. In Paraguay it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Spanish ‘sorrows’; title of the Blessed Virgin Maria de los Dolores.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 120◐
  • ESSpain1 in 313
  • ECEcuador1 in 535

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈311K ●

across 8 countries

#476 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
365 ●

2.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 313 ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

DoloresLatin · Spanish●3.7M records
ДолоресCyrillic · Russian●3.7K records
ᲓოლორესGeorgian · Georgian●28 records
โดโลเรสThai · Thai●1 records
ΝτολορεςGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Delores in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 7 more and Долорес in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Spanish ‘sorrows’; title of the Blessed Virgin Maria de los Dolores.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dolores is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#102568,759494K rec.—730Dolores182
AR Argentina#292434,024292K rec.—355Dolores114
PY Paraguay#16262,5596.8K rec.——Dolores22
ES Spain#19159,919252K rec.1 in 313176KDolores195
US United States#415103,5141M rec.1 in 3.2K104KDelores365
PE Peru#328101,10193K rec.——Dolores52
VE Venezuela#25995,38863K rec.——Dolores38
PH Philippines#22090,07692K rec.——Dolores88
FR France#74974,37337K rec.—10KDolores227
SV El Salvador#7845,77643K rec.——Dolores25
GB United Kingdom#53038,89443K rec.—listedDelores68
EC Ecuador#9731,581△1.2K rec.1 in 53532KDolores54

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish3.7M63%
  • English1.2M21%
  • Portuguese327K6%
  • Catalan160K3%
  • French77K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish3,652,93263%
English1,222,37121%
Portuguese327,1826%
Catalan159,9353%
French77,2171%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dolores is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.4M records spelled Dolores16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador, Venezuela

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dolorès, Dólores

  • a separate given name69K records spelled Dolores3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Ecuador

    Also written Dolorès, Dolóres

  • a separate given name646 records spelled Dolores2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, United Kingdom

    Also written Dolôres

  • Khmer given name449 records spelled Dolores2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Dolorès

  • Hebrew given name430 records spelled Dolores2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Argentina, Ukraine

    Also written דולורס

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dolores is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Spanish; the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Spanish, a female given name from Old Spanish

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Nombre místico por los siete dolores de la Virgen María; plural de latín dolor 'dolor'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Swedish, Dolores är ett spanskt namn, egentligen en förkortning av Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ’vår fru av smärtor’, ett av jungfru Marias binamn.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Espagnol dolores « douleurs »; allusion à Notre-Dame des Douleurs.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200013K · 1930

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Dolores in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188013
188110
188210
188314
188413
188511
188611
188714
188830
188918
189021
189125
189228
189331
189454
189541
189639
189748
189856
189964
190091
190168
1902108
1903114
1904138
1905142
1906183
1907192
1908212
1909220
1910294
1911363
1912522
1913706
1914934
19151,280
19161,374
19171,562
19181,835
19191,911
19202,365
19212,558
19222,714
19233,369
19243,729
19254,145
19265,218
19276,769
19289,615
192911,508
193012,842
193110,807
19329,630
19338,022
19347,689
19357,375
19366,417
19375,568
19384,809
19393,980
19403,604
19414,384
19424,267
19433,698
19443,081
19452,704
19463,064
19473,071
19482,762
19492,464
19502,226
19512,141
19522,044
19531,978
19541,963
19551,778
19561,660
19571,572
19581,524
19591,418
19601,366
19611,340
19621,274
19631,111
19641,082
1965828
1966771
1967678
1968594
1969586
1970563
1971478
1972397
1973372
1974305
1975289
1976324
1977295
1978281
1979290
1980279
1981282
1982280
1983218
1984177
1985199
1986174
1987192
1988147
1989182
1990173
1991135
1992144
1993160
1994126
1995124
1996133
1997104
1998105
199987
200088
200192
200284
200362
200464
200547
200687
200761
200862
200940
201033
201140
201237
201338
201442
201533
201650
201749
201838
201941
202055
202156
202278
202368
202450
202568

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, b. 1699Lola Montez, b. 1821Dolores Ibarruri, b. 1895Dolores Costello, b. 1903Dody Goodman, b. 1914Dolores Fuller, b. 1923Rita Moreno, b. 1931Lola Dueñas, b. 1971Dolores O'Riordan, b. 1971Lola Kirke, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 99 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Dolores
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—176K#20
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—160K#53
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020104K#535
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202432K#57
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—20K#1,379
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202214K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—14K#1,367
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202310K#2,666
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,283
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.5K#429
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,083
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.5K—

Reference works 4

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,030 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dolores?
We estimate roughly 311 thousand people bear Dolores (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Dolores have the most bearers?
Dolores is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled dolores.
How common is Dolores compared with other names?
In Mexico, Dolores is the 102nd most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
Is Dolores a male or female name?
Dolores is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Dolores mean?
Recorded meaning: Spanish ‘sorrows’; title of the Blessed Virgin Maria de los Dolores.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dolores” — the 102nd most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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