Dolores
Dolores is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. Its best rank was 13th, in 1930.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 193012,842 births
- Best rank
- #13in 1930
- Since 1880
- 212,704people given the name
The story in the numbers
211,368 girls have been named Dolores in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 12,842 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 50 births in 2024, against 12,842 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1930s alone account for 36%. It has spent 109 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,336 boys have also been given it, 0.63% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dolores | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 144 | |
| 1890s | 407 | |
| 1900s | 1,468 | |
| 1910s | 10,781 | |
| 1920s | 51,988 | |
| 1930s | 77,137 | |
| 1940s | 33,099 | |
| 1950s | 18,305 | |
| 1960s | 9,629 | |
| 1970s | 3,594 | |
| 1980s | 2,130 | |
| 1990s | 1,291 | |
| 2000s | 687 | |
| 2010s | 401 | |
| 2020s | 307 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Dolores was the 13th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Dolores
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dolorispeak 1932
- Bobbyepeak 1931
- Bettypeak 1930
- Wynellpeak 1932
- Normapeak 1931
- Willodeanpeak 1928
- Ardycepeak 1936
- Ardethpeak 1930
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.