Delores

Spellings & scripts●(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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Delores, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Bertha
• Gertrude
• Barbara
• Gladys
• Beulah
• Betty
• Agnes
• Edna
• Bernice
• Ethel
• Lourdes
• Lola

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Delores is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• English: variant of DOLORES , quite common in the United States. Variant: Deloris .

  as a word

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)

• Delores Taylorb. 1932USAmerican actress
• Delores S. Williamsb. 1937USAmerican womanist theologian
• Delores Wellsb. 1937USAmerican playboy playmate (1937-2016)
• Delores Ivory Davisb. 1939USAmerican soprano singer
• Delores M. Etterb. 1947USAmerican scientist and politician
• Delores Gauntlettb. 1949JMJamaican poet
• Delores Phillipsb. 1950USAmerican writer
• Delores Zieglerb. 1951USAmerican singer
• Phyllis Worthy Dawkinsb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican academic administrator
• Delores HallUSAmerican actress

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).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Delores?

In the etymology graph, Dolores, Lolita and Deloris are forms of the same name in other languages.

Is Delores a male or female name?

Delores 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.

How do you pronounce Delores?

A machine transcription gives /dəˈɫɔɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Delores have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Delores, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delores.

Where is Delores most common?

Delores is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.5 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Delores?

In the United States, the national register counted 60,887 people named Delores in 2020, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.

How common is Delores compared with other names?

In Slovakia, Delores is the 966th most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.