Delmas
Delmas is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 565th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194783 births
- Best rank
- #565in 1907
- Since 1906
- 2,258people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,258 boys have been named Delmas in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 83 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 83 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1940s alone account for 27%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Delmas | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 178 | |
| 1920s | 308 | |
| 1930s | 392 | |
| 1940s | 613 | |
| 1950s | 298 | |
| 1960s | 196 | |
| 1970s | 132 | |
| 1980s | 56 | |
| 1990s | 31 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Delmas was the 754th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Delmas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Iverypeak 1919
- Laurancepeak 1956
- Frediepeak 1924
- Rulonpeak 1927
- Prentispeak 1942
- Earniepeak 1948
- Harrellpeak 1947
- Kermitpeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.