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How popular is “Dolores” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dolores” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dolores” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dolores” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dolores” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dolores” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dolores” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dolores” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 13 0.000064521 13 100%
1881 10 0.000051897 10 100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 100%
1883 14 0.000064532 14 100%
1884 13 0.000053397 13 100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 100%
1886 11 0.000043084 11 100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 100%
1888 30 0.000100176 30 100%
1889 18 0.000062295 18 100%
1890 21 0.000069675 21 100%
1891 25 0.000087207 25 100%
1892 28 0.000083739 28 100%
1893 31 0.000095319 31 100%
1894 54 0.000159438 54 100%
1895 41 0.000116802 41 100%
1896 39 0.000109096 39 100%
1897 48 0.000138346 48 100%
1898 56 0.000146806 56 100%
1899 64 0.00018866 64 100%
1900 91 0.000202106 91 100%
1901 68 0.000196639 68 100%
1902 108 0.000279262 108 100%
1903 114 0.000299056 114 100%
1904 138 0.00034202 138 100%
1905 142 0.000334967 142 100%
1906 183 0.00042712 183 100%
1907 192 0.000412557 192 100%
1908 212 0.000433849 212 100%
1909 220 0.00043034 220 100%
1910 294 0.000497705 294 100%
1911 363 0.000563421 363 100%
1912 534 0.000540452 522 12 96%
1913 706 0.000620872 706 100%
1914 942 0.000665093 934 8 98%
1915 1285 0.000701256 1280 5 99%
1916 1386 0.000716495 1374 12 98%
1917 1580 0.000787343 1562 18 98%
1918 1851 0.000852559 1835 16 98%
1919 1922 0.000910795 1911 11 99%
1920 2383 0.001053193 2365 18 98%
1921 2574 0.001102589 2558 16 99%
1922 2733 0.00119389 2714 19 99%
1923 3392 0.001473194 3369 23 99%
1924 3762 0.001579604 3729 33 98%
1925 4176 0.001789738 4145 31 99%
1926 5250 0.00228668 5219 31 99%
1927 6806 0.002934433 6769 37 99%
1928 9662 0.004273448 9614 48 99%
1929 11560 0.005273335 11506 54 99%
1930 12919 0.005810763 12842 77 99%
1931 10853 0.005157319 10806 47 99%
1932 9683 0.004586293 9630 53 99%
1933 8064 0.004033115 8022 42 99%
1934 7733 0.003723488 7689 44 99%
1935 7430 0.003555194 7374 56 98%
1936 6453 0.003106021 6417 36 99%
1937 5607 0.002631566 5568 39 99%
1938 4842 0.002188401 4809 33 99%
1939 4010 0.00181988 3980 30 99%
1940 3627 0.001575118 3604 23 99%
1941 4418 0.001813313 4384 34 98%
1942 4298 0.001573311 4267 31 99%
1943 3716 0.001316536 3698 18 99%
1944 3110 0.0011561 3081 29 98%
1945 2720 0.001025289 2703 17 99%
1946 3085 0.000965478 3064 21 99%
1947 3092 0.000858335 3071 21 99%
1948 2779 0.00080492 2763 16 99%
1949 2485 0.000713102 2464 21 98%
1950 2249 0.000641956 2226 23 98%
1951 2159 0.000586089 2141 18 98%
1952 2055 0.000541074 2044 11 99%
1953 1996 0.000517951 1978 18 98%
1954 1974 0.000495892 1963 11 99%
1955 1783 0.000444076 1778 5 99%
1956 1668 0.000404556 1660 8 99%
1957 1579 0.000375761 1571 8 99%
1958 1535 0.00037132 1525 10 99%
1959 1434 0.000344878 1419 15 98%
1960 1378 0.000331743 1366 12 98%
1961 1347 0.000325182 1339 8 99%
1962 1284 0.000318186 1273 11 98%
1963 1122 0.000283462 1112 10 98%
1964 1088 0.000279864 1082 6 99%
1965 837 0.000230868 828 9 98%
1966 776 0.000223267 771 5 99%
1967 683 0.000201184 678 5 99%
1968 600 0.000177598 594 6 98%
1969 593 0.000170632 586 7 98%
1970 573 0.000158879 563 10 97%
1971 478 0.000139263 478 100%
1972 402 0.000127904 397 5 98%
1973 380 0.000125958 372 8 96%
1974 305 0.000100329 305 100%
1975 294 0.000097371 289 5 97%
1976 324 0.000106779 324 100%
1977 295 0.00009287 295 100%
1978 281 0.000088535 281 100%
1979 296 0.000088969 290 6 96%
1980 284 0.00008245 279 5 96%
1981 282 0.000081518 282 100%
1982 280 0.000079818 280 100%
1983 218 0.000062945 218 100%
1984 177 0.000050734 177 100%
1985 199 0.000055756 199 100%
1986 174 0.000048917 174 100%
1987 192 0.00005325 192 100%
1988 147 0.000039783 147 100%
1989 188 0.000048902 182 6 94%
1990 173 0.00004377 173 100%
1991 135 0.000034657 135 100%
1992 149 0.000038789 144 5 93%
1993 159 0.000042172 159 100%
1994 127 0.000034161 127 100%
1995 124 0.00003386 124 100%
1996 133 0.000036466 133 100%
1997 104 0.000028684 104 100%
1998 105 0.000028547 105 100%
1999 87 0.000023553 87 100%
2000 88 0.000023281 88 100%
2001 92 0.000024577 92 100%
2002 84 0.00002247 84 100%
2003 62 0.000016306 62 100%
2004 64 0.00001675 64 100%
2005 47 0.000012224 47 100%
2006 87 0.000021991 87 100%
2007 61 0.000015259 61 100%
2008 62 0.000015773 62 100%
2009 40 0.000010471 40 100%
2010 33 0.000008929 33 100%
2011 40 0.000010936 40 100%
2012 37 0.000010117 37 100%
2013 38 0.000010423 38 100%
2014 42 0.000011332 42 100%
2015 33 0.000008917 33 100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 100%
2017 49 0.000013702 49 100%
2018 38 0.000010808 38 100%
2019 41 0.000011812 41 100%
2020 55 0.000016464 55 100%
2021 56 0.000016529 56 100%
2022 78 0.000023056 78 100%
2023 68 0.000020536 68 100%
2024 50 0.000015022 50 100%

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