Meaning & Origin
A female given name from Spanish, variant of Dolores.
Delores is a girl's and boy's baby name of Spanish origin, a variant of Dolores, from the Spanish Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ('Our Lady of Sorrows'), referencing the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary. Despite its somber religious origin, the name carries a warm, melodic dignity.
Delores and Dolores peaked in the U.S. during the 1920s–40s. The variant spelling Delores was common in the American Midwest and South, where it shed some of its strictly Spanish Catholic associations and became simply a graceful name for a graceful era.