Step forward Dolores

[Fnaar]

 

[BigAl68]

One of my team at work is Theresa Dolores she is Irish. And I have a Spanish friend who is also a Dolores known as loli. Seems to be a Catholic thing. I like the name.

 

[Crackle]

So many, and I've never met one, how very odd.

 

[jefmcg]

Seems to be a Catholic thing

This made me curious, as catholics are named after saints. So apparently it's a Spanish name, from Our Lady of Sorrows, Maria de los Dolores. So it means "Sorrows". Maybe that's why it's gone out of fashion.

And, of course, Lolita.

 

[smokeysmoo]

My grandfather's name was Aubrey. There aren't too many of them about these days either.

He was a cartoon character? I remember watching him when I was a nipper

 

[smokeysmoo]

FWIW the only Dolores dealings I've ever known is from the Paul Simon track Slip Slidin' Away.

 

[JtB]

One of my favorite singers Maria Dolores Pradera is an acquired taste outside of Spain and so this won't get many likes.

I remember stood in a Spanish town square (on the remote north west coastline) completely packed with people one night watching a live concert with Maria Dolores and her backing guitars. Everyone except my nephew and I had unbrellas and everytime the heavens opened there was a field of open umbrellas all channeling the water to the hole in the crowd where we were stood. We got completly drenched but it was worth it.

 

[annedonnelly]

My grandfather's name was Aubrey. There aren't too many of them about these days either.

One of my neighbours works for, & drives a van with the name on the side, a plumbers called Aubrey Cornfoot. Wonderful name!