Dolores

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Spanish ‘sorrows’; title of the Blessed Virgin Maria de los Dolores

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dolores is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 26th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 313(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 535
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 769

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈590,000 people, est.

#716 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
377 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 313 (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DoloresLatin(measured from records)
ДолоресCyrillic(measured from records)
โดโลเรสThai(measured from records)
დოლორესGeorgian(measured from records)
ΝτολορεςGreek(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Spanish ‘sorrows’; title of the Blessed Virgin Maria de los Dolores.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

How Dolores is read(measured from records)

Dolores is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish53%

    Spanish ‘sorrows’; title of the Blessed Virgin Maria de los Dolores.

    as a nameIrish first names

    a female given name from Old Spanish

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Nombre místico por los siete dolores de la Virgen María; plural de latín dolor 'dolor'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English35%

    Spanish; the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dolores counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dolores is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈590,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Dolores10
ES Spain#43159,9191 in 313176KDolores209
US United States—104,6601 in 3.2K104KDolores377
PH Philippines#302≈95,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Dolores91
EC Ecuador#3431,5811 in 53532KDolores56
SV El Salvador#90≈8,400 est.≈1 in 769—Dolores25
NI Nicaragua#26≈5,500 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Dolores26

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dolores is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dolorès, Dólores

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Dolóres, Dolorès

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Ecuador

    Also written Dolôres

  • Khmer given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru

    Also written Dolorès

  • Hebrew given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Ukraine, Argentina

    Also written דולורס

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dolores is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Dolores är ett spanskt namn, egentligen en förkortning av Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ’vår fru av smärtor’, ett av jungfru Marias binamn.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Espagnol dolores « douleurs »; allusion à Notre-Dame des Douleurs.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, b. 1699Lola Montez, b. 1821Dolores Ibarruri, b. 1895Dolores Costello, b. 1903Dody Goodman, b. 1914Dolores Fuller, b. 1923Rita Moreno, b. 1931Lola Dueñas, b. 1971Dolores O'Riordan, b. 1971Lola Kirke, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 103 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Dolores
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—176K#20
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—160K#53
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020104K#535
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202432K#57
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#535
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202568—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—20#26,606

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dolores mean, and where does it come from?
Spanish ‘sorrows’; title of the Blessed Virgin Maria de los Dolores. Recorded by Irish first names.
What are other forms of the name Dolores?
In the etymology graph, Delores, Lola and Lolita are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Dolores a male or female name?
Dolores is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Dolores have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 595 thousand people named Dolores in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dolores.
Where is Dolores most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dolores is densest in Spain — about 1 in 313 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dolores?
In Spain, the national register counted 159,919 people named Dolores, about 1 in 313 residents.
How common is Dolores compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Dolores is the 26th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dolores” — the 26th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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