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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/
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