Delores

Where Delores comes from

The dictionaries list Delores as a given name — a female given name from Spanish, variant of Dolores — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,210 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1932
    Delores Taylor born
    American actress
  3. 1934
    Peak, #51
    3,991 babies named Delores — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1951
    Delores Ziegler born
    American singer
  5. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #177.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish, variant of Dolores.
Namesakes
  • Delores Taylor · American actress, 1932–2018
  • Delores Ziegler · American singer, born 1951
  • Delores S. Williams · American womanist theologian, 1937–2022
  • Delores Hall · American actress
  • Delores P. Aldridge · American sociologist, born 1900

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.