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Dolores (given name)

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Pronunciation
  
doh-LOR-iss

Word/name
  
Latin

Gender
  
Female

Related names
  
Lola, Lolita, Loli

Dolores (given name)

Meaning
  
Sorrowful, sorrows, pain

Dolores (or Delores) is a given name.

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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

  • Addolorata Italian
  • Delora English
  • Delores English
  • Deloris English
  • Dolores English, Spanish
  • Dolorès French
  • Dolors Catalan
  • Dores Galician, Portuguese
  • Lola English, Spanish
  • Lolicia English
  • Lolita Spanish
  • People

  • Dolores Duran, born Adiléia Silva da Rocha; Rio de Janeiro, 7 June 1930 – 24 October 1959) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter
  • Dolores (Ziegfeld girl), born Kathleen Rose (1893/4-1975)
  • Dolores Alexander (1931–2008), American activist
  • Dolores Costello (1903-1979), American actress
  • 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 (born 1971), 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
  • 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).
  • References

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