Delta
Delta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 82 births. Its best rank was 723rd, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 820.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2019136 births
- Best rank
- #723in 1893
- Since 1883
- 4,397people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,289 girls have been named Delta in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 136 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1920s alone account for 11%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 108 boys have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | |
| 1890s | 131 | |
| 1900s | 192 | |
| 1910s | 462 | |
| 1920s | 488 | |
| 1930s | 389 | |
| 1940s | 283 | |
| 1950s | 298 | |
| 1960s | 195 | |
| 1970s | 410 | |
| 1980s | 184 | |
| 1990s | 156 | |
| 2000s | 115 | |
| 2010s | 460 | |
| 2020s | 475 |
In 2019, its biggest year
Delta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Delta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carlotapeak 2023
- Maidapeak 1918
- Vadapeak 2020
- Zolapeak 2018
- Nolapeak 2020
- Vedapeak 2024
- Eleanorapeak 2024
- Ceceliapeak 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.