Entry № 2600 · Spanish origin

Dolores Dolores — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ doh-LOR-es /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Sorrows"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "sorrows".

Dolores is the Spanish word for "sorrows" — the title of the Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows), referring to her seven sorrows. The English diminutive Lola also derives from Dolores.

Dolores peaked at #67 in the U.S. in 1929. Dolores Huerta (born 1930), the American labor leader and civil rights activist, is the most consequential bearer.

Our Lady of Sorrows. The Spanish Marian devotion.

The name in its native script.

Dolores
Transliteration
Dolores
Pronunciation
/ dəˈlɔːr.ɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dolores stands.

Dolores does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Doloress before her.

Real people
Dolores Huerta
American civil rights leader.
born 1930
Dolores del Río
Mexican actress.
1904 – 1983
In fiction
Dolores Umbridge
Antagonist in Harry Potter.
2003 novel

Names connected to Dolores.

The number behind Dolores.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dolores reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.