Dolores

Where Dolores comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Dolores.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dolores
  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
Dolores through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls, with 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Dolores Ibárruri born
    Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician
  3. 1930
    Peak, #13
    12,842 babies named Dolores, the most in any year.
  4. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #30.
  5. 1971
    Dolores O'Riordan born
    Irish musician
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Dolores O'Riordan · Irish musician, 1971–2018
  • Dolores Ibárruri · Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician, 1895–1989
  • Dolores Costello · American actress, 1903–1979
  • Dolores Hart · American Roman Catholic religious nun, and former actress, born 1938

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.