Delpha
Delpha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 658th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192174 births
- Best rank
- #658in 1883
- Since 1882
- 2,025people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,025 girls have been named Delpha in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 74 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 74 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delpha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 44 | |
| 1890s | 122 | |
| 1900s | 161 | |
| 1910s | 424 | |
| 1920s | 548 | |
| 1930s | 360 | |
| 1940s | 194 | |
| 1950s | 116 | |
| 1960s | 46 | |
| 1970s | 10 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Delpha was the 858th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Delpha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nevapeak 1920
- Ulapeak 1924
- Mariepeak 1920
- Verdapeak 1918
- Cecilepeak 1918
- Aldapeak 1918
- Mablepeak 1922
- Vernapeak 1918
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.