Dolores

Where Dolores comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Dolores.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dolores
  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.