Dolores
Dolores was given to 68 girls in 2025, #2,567 among girls’ names; 212,776 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 65,500 Americans named Dolores and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 66 and 87.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dolores by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dolores mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dolores is “a female given name from Spanish.”
Borrowed from Spanish Dolores.
/dəˈlɔɹ.ɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dolores?
#2,567 among girls’ names, 2025
Dolores rose from #4,322 in 2015 to #2,567 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 42.3 per million.
12,919 babies in 1930, the peak
Dolores peaked in 1930, when 12,919 babies were given it (12,842 girls, #13 among girls’ names). The 68 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,567 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,186 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,594 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,368 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,969 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,936 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,682 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,870 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,260 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,246 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,322 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,669 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,942 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,067 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,795 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,421 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,890 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,863 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,939 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,213 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,275 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,595 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,585 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,048 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,887 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,922 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,829 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,568 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 104 | #1,553 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,297 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 124 | #1,328 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 126 | #1,334 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 160 | #1,119 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 144 | #1,207 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 135 | #1,247 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 173 | #1,036 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 182 | #956 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 147 | #1,072 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 192 | #882 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 174 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 199 | #820 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 177 | #864 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 218 | #748 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 280 | #639 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 282 | #632 | 0.17 |
| 1980 | 279 | #655 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 290 | #611 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 281 | #610 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 295 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 324 | #540 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 289 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 305 | #550 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 372 | #482 | 0.26 |
| 1972 | 397 | #467 | 0.26 |
| 1971 | 478 | #438 | 0.29 |
| 1970 | 563 | #407 | 0.32 |
| 1969 | 586 | #388 | 0.35 |
| 1968 | 594 | #373 | 0.36 |
| 1967 | 678 | #339 | 0.41 |
| 1966 | 771 | #319 | 0.46 |
| 1965 | 828 | #312 | 0.47 |
| 1964 | 1,082 | #274 | 0.57 |
| 1963 | 1,111 | #268 | 0.58 |
| 1962 | 1,274 | #249 | 0.65 |
| 1961 | 1,340 | #235 | 0.66 |
| 1960 | 1,366 | #232 | 0.68 |
| 1959 | 1,418 | #222 | 0.70 |
| 1958 | 1,524 | #210 | 0.76 |
| 1957 | 1,572 | #212 | 0.77 |
| 1956 | 1,660 | #198 | 0.83 |
| 1955 | 1,778 | #190 | 0.91 |
| 1954 | 1,963 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1953 | 1,978 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1952 | 2,044 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1951 | 2,141 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1950 | 2,226 | #139 | 1.3 |
| 1949 | 2,464 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1948 | 2,762 | #119 | 1.6 |
| 1947 | 3,071 | #111 | 1.7 |
| 1946 | 3,064 | #104 | 1.9 |
| 1945 | 2,704 | #103 | 2.1 |
| 1944 | 3,081 | #92 | 2.3 |
| 1943 | 3,698 | #74 | 2.7 |
| 1942 | 4,267 | #63 | 3.2 |
| 1941 | 4,384 | #57 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 3,604 | #67 | 3.2 |
| 1939 | 3,980 | #58 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 4,809 | #43 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 5,568 | #37 | 5.2 |
| 1936 | 6,417 | #30 | 6.2 |
| 1935 | 7,375 | #26 | 7.0 |
| 1934 | 7,689 | #26 | 7.4 |
| 1933 | 8,022 | #21 | 8.0 |
| 1932 | 9,630 | #18 | 9.0 |
| 1931 | 10,807 | #14 | 10.2 |
| 1930 | 12,842 | #13 | 11.4 |
| 1929 | 11,508 | #14 | 10.3 |
| 1928 | 9,615 | #20 | 8.3 |
| 1927 | 6,769 | #34 | 5.7 |
| 1926 | 5,218 | #49 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 4,145 | #64 | 3.4 |
| 1924 | 3,729 | #75 | 3.0 |
| 1923 | 3,369 | #83 | 2.8 |
| 1922 | 2,714 | #104 | 2.3 |
| 1921 | 2,558 | #111 | 2.1 |
| 1920 | 2,365 | #110 | 2.0 |
| 1919 | 1,911 | #124 | 1.7 |
| 1918 | 1,835 | #127 | 1.6 |
| 1917 | 1,562 | #139 | 1.4 |
| 1916 | 1,374 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 1915 | 1,280 | #147 | 1.3 |
| 1914 | 934 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 1913 | 706 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1912 | 522 | #185 | 0.94 |
| 1911 | 363 | #196 | 0.87 |
| 1910 | 294 | #220 | 0.74 |
| 1909 | 220 | #238 | 0.63 |
| 1908 | 212 | #233 | 0.63 |
| 1907 | 192 | #244 | 0.60 |
| 1906 | 183 | #237 | 0.62 |
| 1905 | 142 | #277 | 0.49 |
| 1904 | 138 | #269 | 0.50 |
| 1903 | 114 | #292 | 0.44 |
| 1902 | 108 | #304 | 0.41 |
| 1901 | 68 | #364 | 0.28 |
| 1900 | 91 | #353 | 0.30 |
| 1899 | 64 | #366 | 0.27 |
| 1898 | 56 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1897 | 48 | #422 | 0.20 |
| 1896 | 39 | #463 | 0.16 |
| 1895 | 41 | #442 | 0.18 |
| 1894 | 54 | #382 | 0.24 |
| 1893 | 31 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 28 | #512 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 25 | #515 | 0.13 |
| 1890 | 21 | #572 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 18 | #604 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 30 | #451 | 0.17 |
| 1887 | 14 | #614 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 11 | #702 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 11 | #666 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 13 | #592 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 14 | #525 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 10 | #606 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 10 | #548 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 13 | #475 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dolores a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dolores has been given almost only to girls: 1,336 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dolores: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dolores, and how old are they?
65,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 31% of the 212,776 Americans ever recorded as Dolores. The median Dolores alive today is 78 years old; half are between 66 and 87.
The 2020 Census counted 104,660 people named Dolores (103,514 women and girls, 1,146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93,053 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26,700 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 662 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dolores born?
The states with the most babies named Dolores are Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 30,177 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 24,570 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 18,667 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 17,129 | #1,677 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 13,311 | #1,734 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 10,800 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 10,529 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 10,433 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Wisconsin | 6,663 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 4,702 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Dolores is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dolores is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dolores with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 333,236 babies since 1880, Dolores is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 89 babies (76%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dolores
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dolores and names like it
- Compare Dolores and DeloresBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDolores peaked in 1930.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dolores since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Dolores: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Dolores.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dolores alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.