Dolores
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Dolores
Though it's related to the Virgin Mary, this name was once perceived as the height of sensuality, a role since taken over by nicknames Lola and Lolita.
Dolores is one of the many titles given to the Virgin Mary — Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, or Our Lady of the Sorrows, and was one of the Spanish names that really caught on in this country — at one point in time, in 1930, Dolores was the 13th most popular girls' name in the US. But in the twenty-first century, you might prefer one of the other names derived from Mary's Spanish epithets — Mercedes, Soledad, Rosario or Luz.
Dolores does have some Harry Potter cred, via the witch Dolores Umbridge. Addison Timlin and Jeremy Allen White gave the name to their daughter in 2020.
Dolores is also given to boys.
Pronounced duh-LOR-es.
As of October 2026, Dolores ranked #2567 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #13 in 1930, Nameberry popularity #878.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,671 | 42 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #4,323 | 33 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #3,245 | 50 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #3,257 | 49 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #3,870 | 38 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #3,683 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,935 | 55 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,966 | 56 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #2,367 | 78 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #2,591 | 68 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #3,175 | 50 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #2,567 | 68 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Dolores for girls
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Dolores on lists
Famous Doloress
- (Maria de los) Dolores Beatrix Carolina Blanca Leopoldina von HabsburgGirl
Lothringen, Archduchess of Austria; Princess of Tuscany
- Dolores Clara Fernandez HuertaGirl
American labor leader
- Dolores del Rio (born María de los Dolores Asúnsolo LópezGirl
Negrete), Mexican actress
- Dolores CostelloGirl
American actress
- Dolores Mary Eileen O'RiordanGirl
Irish singer of rock band The Cranberries
- Dolores HartGirl
American actress and nun
- Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise GuinessGirl
German socialite
- Dolores (born Kathleen Rose)Girl
American model and showgirl
- Dolores KeaneGirl
Irish singer of folk group De Dannan
- Dolores Korman SloviterGirl
U.S. federal judge
- (Isidora) Dolores Ibárruri (Gómez)Girl
Spanish revolutionary
- Maria de los Dolores Victoria Filippa Maria de las Mercedes Luisa Carlota Eugenia y Todos los SantosGirl
Princess of Bourbon,Two Sicilies, Princess Czartoryska
- Dolores "Loli"-Bahia RoubilleGirl
French-Algerian model
- Dolores WhiteGirl
Jeremy Allen White's daughter
Dolores in pop culture
- Dolores "Lolita" HazeGirl
character in Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" (''she was Dolores on the dotted line'')
- "Dolores ClaiborneGirl
" novel by Stephen King, film and main character
- Dolores AbernathyGirl
Evan Rachel Wood's character on HBO's "Westworld"
- DoloresGirl
character on TV's "The Worst Witch"
- Dolores Jane UmbridgeGirl
character in the "Harry Potter" series
- DoloresGirl
character in an episode of "Seinfeld," whose name "rhymes with a part of the female anatomy"
- DoloresGirl
character in 1998 film "The Naked Man"
- Dolores PasternakGirl
character on TV series "Two and a Half Men"
- Dolores LandringhamGirl
character on TV series "The West Wing"
- Dolores MartinGirl
Chip "the Colonel" Martin's mother in "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
- Dolores MendezGirl
character in G. A. Henty's "By England's Aid"
- Dolores SlingshotGirl
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Dolores Theodora Marie CelesteGirl
character in Ellen Conford's "A Royal Pain"
- "Dolores"Girl
song by Frank Sinatra (famously covered by Bing Crosby) ("How I love the kisses of Dolores...")
- "Dolores"Girl
song by pop artist Gingkoa
- DoloresGirl
mannequin in the TV series "The Umbrella Academy"
- Dolores MadrigalGirl
character in Disney's film "Encanto"