Delores
Delores is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 51st, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19324,152 births
- Best rank
- #51in 1934
- Since 1890
- 117,800people given the name
The story in the numbers
117,800 girls have been named Delores in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1932, with 4,152 births — 0.39% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 4,152 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1930s alone account for 32%. It has spent 84 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 17 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delores | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 54 | |
| 1900s | 278 | |
| 1910s | 2,375 | |
| 1920s | 16,462 | |
| 1930s | 37,603 | |
| 1940s | 28,504 | |
| 1950s | 19,363 | |
| 1960s | 8,458 | |
| 1970s | 2,424 | |
| 1980s | 1,145 | |
| 1990s | 612 | |
| 2000s | 259 | |
| 2010s | 182 | |
| 2020s | 81 |
In 1932, its biggest year
Delores was the 56th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1932 were Mary, Betty, Barbara, Dorothy and Joan. See all of 1932.
Names that rose and fell with Delores
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arlyspeak 1933
- Joanpeak 1932
- Darlynepeak 1935
- Beverleypeak 1938
- Delorispeak 1947
- Merlenepeak 1940
- Marlyspeak 1937
- Bettyepeak 1933
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.