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Delora

Girls' name

Form of Dolores

Delora has been given to 2,812 babies in the U.S. since 1887. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Delora, 2021

1 in 565,000

Delora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delora: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Dolores

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delora means

Delora is a form of Dolores.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Delora is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /də.ˈlɔɹ.ə/ for Delora.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Delora is a form of Dolores. Dolores has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dolores.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,812 girls were recorded with the name Delora between 1887 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1917; its best national rank was #925 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Delora?

Delora had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deloras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delora was born before 1945 — so the typical Delora is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
16.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,238
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1930s — 16.0% of all recorded uses (449).

Is Delora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (56)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#925
1917

Spellings of Delora

Delora is not the most common spelling — Deborah is, with 37.0% against Delora's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Delora is used

Across 1910–2025, Delora was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 279,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 50,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Delora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#925
1917
Peak year
1917
56 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
2,812
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DelilaDelenaDelaniDelanaDelinaDelanyDelcieDeliahDeliciaDelaineDelfinaDelphiaDeltaDevoraDelylahDelainaDelanieDelisaDelylaLanoraEudoraDelphaKamoraHonora

Names with a curve like Delora

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Delora, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DorineBernettaVeliaWanitaMelvinRoyVernettaLawrenceLorrettaHerminiaGeraldNinfa

Sibling names for Delora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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