Dolores

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Spanish dolores = 'pain', 'sorrows' [1] [2] [3]

Deriving from 'Nuestra Señora/María de los Dolores', a Spanish title for the Virgin Mary [4]

Related Names

Dolores
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Doloris Swedish

For pet forms see Dollan, Dolly, Lola

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dolores
Genitive: Dolores'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dolores
Genitive: Doloresin
Partitive: Doloresia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dolores
Genitive: Dolores'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dolores
Genitive: Dolores' / Dolores

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 412 people were named Dolores (percentage of first or only given name: 16 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
164 724 162 720 2 4
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
414
n.a.
414 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
22
n.a.
22
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
9 14
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
41
n.a.
41
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dolores.


References

  1. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/