Delma — unisex name

What the Data Says About Delma

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,454 babies named Delma between 1884 and 2023, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delma currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 205 babies received it in a single year. Delma is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,447 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Delma performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,745 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Delma shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,588 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Delma in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Delma in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,454 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.