Delphine
Delphine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 427th, in 1930.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1958348 births
- Best rank
- #427in 1930
- Since 1880
- 10,407people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,407 girls have been named Delphine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 348 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delphine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 102 | |
| 1890s | 162 | |
| 1900s | 287 | |
| 1910s | 1,021 | |
| 1920s | 2,080 | |
| 1930s | 1,730 | |
| 1940s | 1,005 | |
| 1950s | 1,676 | |
| 1960s | 987 | |
| 1970s | 343 | |
| 1980s | 141 | |
| 1990s | 103 | |
| 2000s | 154 | |
| 2010s | 397 | |
| 2020s | 219 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Delphine was the 520th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Delphine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glendorapeak 1956
- Ernestinepeak 1928
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Arlettapeak 1930
- Margarettpeak 1922
- Dorcaspeak 1923
- Millicentpeak 1927
- Rebapeak 1925
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.