girls:
117.8k births since 1890
#326 (94th percentile)
boys:
430 births since 1922
#4156 (9th percentile)
overall:
118.2k births since 1890
#608 (92nd percentile)
The name Delores is the #608 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 118,220 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 92.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #326 (94.3% percentile) for all time with 117,790 births since 1890. For boys, it ranks #4,156 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 430 births since 1922.
Delores first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for girls and 1922 for boys). Birth data for Delores is available in 130 out of the 134 years between 1890 and 2023 (130 years for girls and 37 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Delores has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Delores reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 91.2% percentile (ranked #51) with 3,687 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 3,753 births per million (ranked 90.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Delores ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Delores reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #502) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delores".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Delores. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.7% confident that Delores is pronounced as duh-LAW-rihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-LAW-rihs, at 13.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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