girls:
211.3k births since 1880
#186 (97th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1912
#3283 (28th percentile)
overall:
212.7k births since 1880
#367 (95th percentile)
The name Dolores is the #367 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 212,653 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #186 (96.8% percentile) for all time with 211,317 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,283 (28.4% percentile) for all time with 1,336 births since 1912.
Dolores has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1912 for boys).
The name Dolores has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dolores reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 98.0% percentile (ranked #13) with 11,009 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 11,009 births per million (ranked 98.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dolores ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dolores reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 13.7% percentile (ranked #453) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 68 births per million (ranked 13.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dolores".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Dolores. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.4% confident that Dolores is pronounced as duh-LAW-rihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-LAW-rehs, at 21.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AH0 L AO1 R IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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