Meaning not yet researched.
Delores: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #51 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #51 in 1934; #5,771 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delores in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,771 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #51.
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Delores: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #51 in 1934 · most girls in one year: 4,152 (1932).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Delores, making it the 5,771st most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,716 places from #10,487 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 9 girls named Delores in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #51, reached in 1934. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,152, in 1932. For comparison, it was #6,292 in 2015 and #129 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delores in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 6 babies. In all, 118,251 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 37,792 babies named Delores.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 184 US girls were named Delores; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dolores (212,776 babies since 1880) and Deloris (34,781 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delorise, Delories and Deloras are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dee, Dell, Della, Lola and Lolly.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delorise (1,311), Delories (1,251), Deloras (908), Delorese (135), Deloros (79), Delorus (75), Delaris (6), Delouris (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,771 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,487 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,902 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,154 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,765 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,309 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,658 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,081 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,551 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,327 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,292 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,768 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,539 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,228 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,897 | — | — |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,388 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,162 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,193 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,629 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,425 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,313 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,965 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1987 | 89 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1986 | 84 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1984 | 117 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1983 | 111 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1982 | 148 | #999 | — | — |
| 1981 | 157 | #944 | — | — |
| 1980 | 178 | #862 | — | — |
| 1979 | 156 | #942 | — | — |
| 1978 | 167 | #877 | — | — |
| 1977 | 185 | #813 | — | — |
| 1976 | 162 | #844 | — | — |
| 1975 | 191 | #750 | — | — |
| 1974 | 231 | #660 | — | — |
| 1973 | 281 | #573 | — | — |
| 1972 | 269 | #596 | — | — |
| 1971 | 339 | #541 | — | — |
| 1970 | 442 | #469 | — | — |
| 1969 | 454 | #453 | — | — |
| 1968 | 520 | #409 | — | — |
| 1967 | 576 | #381 | — | — |
| 1966 | 700 | #334 | — | — |
| 1965 | 733 | #333 | — | — |
| 1964 | 892 | #308 | 6 | #3,705 |
| 1963 | 1,001 | #292 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,046 | #278 | 5 | #4,194 |
| 1961 | 1,191 | #259 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,346 | #236 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,376 | #229 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,596 | #204 | 7 | #3,345 |
| 1957 | 1,656 | #205 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 1956 | 1,845 | #188 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,790 | #188 | 6 | #3,587 |
| 1954 | 1,948 | #177 | 7 | #3,227 |
| 1953 | 2,172 | #156 | 6 | #3,512 |
| 1952 | 2,191 | #152 | 5 | #3,857 |
| 1951 | 2,332 | #141 | 6 | #3,429 |
| 1950 | 2,457 | #129 | 11 | #2,348 |
| 1949 | 2,529 | #126 | 10 | #2,490 |
| 1948 | 2,840 | #116 | 7 | #3,066 |
| 1947 | 2,964 | #115 | 6 | #3,449 |
| 1946 | 2,781 | #115 | 17 | #1,777 |
| 1945 | 2,445 | #112 | 8 | #2,610 |
| 1944 | 2,756 | #97 | 14 | #1,905 |
| 1943 | 2,929 | #99 | 12 | #2,202 |
| 1942 | 3,171 | #86 | 9 | #2,566 |
| 1941 | 3,160 | #80 | 9 | #2,524 |
| 1940 | 2,929 | #83 | 21 | #1,483 |
| 1939 | 3,018 | #79 | 17 | #1,656 |
| 1938 | 3,322 | #75 | 19 | #1,573 |
| 1937 | 3,529 | #68 | 15 | #1,845 |
| 1936 | 3,760 | #58 | 18 | #1,601 |
| 1935 | 3,793 | #57 | 15 | #1,854 |
| 1934 | 3,991 | #51 | 20 | #1,568 |
| 1933 | 3,890 | #52 | 18 | #1,658 |
| 1932 | 4,152 | #56 | 19 | #1,661 |
| 1931 | 4,050 | #58 | 20 | #1,599 |
| 1930 | 4,098 | #66 | 28 | #1,371 |
| 1929 | 3,517 | #74 | 14 | #2,117 |
| 1928 | 2,810 | #94 | 15 | #2,069 |
| 1927 | 2,015 | #128 | 7 | #3,536 |
| 1926 | 1,675 | #145 | 5 | #4,352 |
| 1925 | 1,486 | #163 | 6 | #3,841 |
| 1924 | 1,324 | #174 | 7 | #3,577 |
| 1923 | 1,181 | #184 | — | — |
| 1922 | 911 | #215 | 7 | #3,603 |
| 1921 | 810 | #229 | — | — |
| 1920 | 733 | #241 | — | — |
| 1919 | 486 | #288 | — | — |
| 1918 | 436 | #305 | — | — |
| 1917 | 393 | #310 | — | — |
| 1916 | 271 | #381 | — | — |
| 1915 | 237 | #391 | — | — |
| 1914 | 203 | #372 | — | — |
| 1913 | 113 | #473 | — | — |
| 1912 | 111 | #448 | — | — |
| 1911 | 75 | #477 | — | — |
| 1910 | 50 | #587 | — | — |
| 1909 | 42 | #595 | — | — |
| 1908 | 47 | #536 | — | — |
| 1907 | 33 | #655 | — | — |
| 1906 | 28 | #692 | — | — |
| 1905 | 24 | #738 | — | — |
| 1904 | 28 | #656 | — | — |
| 1903 | 22 | #716 | — | — |
| 1902 | 22 | #741 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #927 | — | — |
| 1900 | 19 | #865 | — | — |
| 1899 | 19 | #734 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,244 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).