Dolores (given name)

Dolores

Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. El Viso del Alcor (Seville, Spain)
Pronunciation	doh-LOR-ehs
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	Sorrowful, sorrows, pain
Other names
Related names	Lola, Lolita, Loli

Dolores is a feminine given name of Spanish origin.

Etymology

In Spanish, where the name originated and is more prevalent, it is short for La Virgen María de los Dolores, "Virgin Mary of Sorrows", and is often shortened to the more colloquial forms Lola, Lolita or Loli.

Variants

• Dolors (Catalan)
• Delora, Delores, Deloris, Dolores, Dollie (diminutive), Dolly (diminutive), Lola (diminutive), Lolicia (diminutive, rare), Lori (diminutive) (English)
• Dolorosa (Esperanto)
• Dolorès, Douleurs (French)
• Dores (Galician)
• Addolorata (Italian)
• Dolorosa (Latin)
• Dores (Portuguese)
• Dolores, Lola (diminutive), Loli (diminutive), Lolita (diminutive) (Spanish)

People

• Dolores Duran (nee Adiléia Silva da Rocha; 1930–1959), Brazilian singer-songwriter
• Dolores (nee Kathleen Rose), born Kathleen Rose (1893/4-1975)
• Dolores Alexander (1931–2008), American activist
• Dolores Costello (1903-1979), American actress
• Dolores Crow (1931–2018), American legislator
• Dolores del Río (1905–1983), Mexican actress
• Dolores Fonzi (born 1978), Argentine actress
• Dolores Guinness (1936-2012), German born fashion icon
• Dolores Hart (born 1938), American nun and former actress
• Dolores Huerta (born 1930), American labor activist
• Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989), "La Pasionaria", Spanish politician
• Dolores Keane (born 1953), Irish folk singer
• Delores G. Kelley (born 1936), American politician
• Delores McQuinn (born 1954), American politician
• Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018), Irish singer and songwriter
• Dolores Pedrares (born 1973), Spanish hammer thrower
• María Dolores Pradera (born 1924), Spanish singer
• Dolores Sloviter (born 1932), American federal appellate judge
• C. Delores Tucker (1927–2005), American politician
• Mademoiselle Dolores (Antonia Dolores Bettini), soprano daughter of Zelia Trebelli-Bettini

Fictional Characters

• Delores Landingham, fictional character from the West Wing
• Dolores Belmont, fictional character from Castlevania: Order of Shadows
• Deloris Van Cartier, fictional film character from Sister Act
• Dolores Umbridge, fictional character from the Harry Potter series
• Dolores Haze, fictional character from the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Dolores Abernathy, fictional character from Westworld (TV series)
• Delores Edmund, playable character from Thimbleweed Park
• Dolores, fictional character from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Delores, fictional character from North and South
• Dolores, fictional character from the novel Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King