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Girl · Spanish (Latin dolor)
Dolores
Say it: doh-LOH-res
Meaning
Spanish 'sorrows', from the title María de los Dolores, the Virgin of Sorrows.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Very common in Spain from the 19th to the mid-20th century; its pet form Lola became a name of its own.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1930s
In the United States
- 212,451 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1930, about 1 in 88 girls
- 54 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Lola, Lolita
| Catalan | Dolors |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | Dores |
| Basque | Nekane |
Famous bearers
- Dolores Ibárruri, 'La Pasionaria'
- Dolores del Río, Mexican actress
- Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labor leader
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.