Delma
Delma is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 448th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1926205 births
- Best rank
- #448in 1907
- Since 1884
- 9,901people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,454 girls have been named Delma in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 205 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 205 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,447 boys have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 36 | |
| 1890s | 129 | |
| 1900s | 388 | |
| 1910s | 1,195 | |
| 1920s | 1,745 | |
| 1930s | 1,457 | |
| 1940s | 1,027 | |
| 1950s | 1,057 | |
| 1960s | 771 | |
| 1970s | 355 | |
| 1980s | 157 | |
| 1990s | 79 | |
| 2000s | 34 | |
| 2010s | 19 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Delma was the 486th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Delma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rethapeak 1924
- Rebapeak 1925
- Claricepeak 1921
- Reathapeak 1927
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Romainepeak 1928
- Revapeak 1921
- Mozellapeak 1920
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.