Delmar
Delmar was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,917 among boys’ names; 14,376 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,460 Americans named Delmar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 45 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delmar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Delmar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Delmar is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “the pond” (Mare).
Contraction of Delamare and de la Mare, from places in Normandy named La Mare (“the pond”). In the US, also borrowed from Catalan del Mar (“of the sea”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Delmar?
#5,917 among boys’ names, 2025
Delmar fell from #5,797 in 2015 to #5,917 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 8.8 per million.
360 babies in 1927, the peak
Delmar peaked in 1927, when 360 babies were given it (353 boys, #307 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,917 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,737 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,913 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,216 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,520 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,305 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,835 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,391 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,145 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,904 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (144)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,797 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,164 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,428 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,896 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,267 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,062 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,164 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,710 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,359 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,676 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,655 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,957 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,334 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,092 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,293 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,113 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,627 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,633 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,407 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,148 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 36 | #1,996 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,043 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,696 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 27 | #1,991 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,495 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 46 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 50 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 69 | #985 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,136 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 69 | #973 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,099 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 80 | #900 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 66 | #946 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 69 | #871 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 75 | #828 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 65 | #895 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 77 | #838 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 77 | #871 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 106 | #753 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 92 | #792 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 91 | #799 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 106 | #747 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 106 | #741 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 90 | #785 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 134 | #659 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 126 | #672 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 125 | #656 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 154 | #596 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 145 | #601 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 138 | #600 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 158 | #540 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 147 | #557 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 146 | #554 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 170 | #507 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 217 | #455 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 183 | #475 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 149 | #493 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 169 | #468 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 215 | #423 | 0.15 |
| 1942 | 217 | #418 | 0.16 |
| 1941 | 239 | #374 | 0.19 |
| 1940 | 227 | #381 | 0.20 |
| 1939 | 275 | #337 | 0.25 |
| 1938 | 263 | #345 | 0.24 |
| 1937 | 259 | #338 | 0.24 |
| 1936 | 305 | #304 | 0.29 |
| 1935 | 289 | #318 | 0.28 |
| 1934 | 303 | #312 | 0.29 |
| 1933 | 310 | #304 | 0.31 |
| 1932 | 304 | #314 | 0.29 |
| 1931 | 354 | #294 | 0.34 |
| 1930 | 332 | #312 | 0.30 |
| 1929 | 300 | #318 | 0.28 |
| 1928 | 332 | #304 | 0.30 |
| 1927 | 353 | #307 | 0.31 |
| 1926 | 314 | #321 | 0.28 |
| 1925 | 328 | #314 | 0.29 |
| 1924 | 292 | #341 | 0.26 |
| 1923 | 313 | #330 | 0.29 |
| 1922 | 310 | #328 | 0.28 |
| 1921 | 330 | #321 | 0.30 |
| 1920 | 335 | #315 | 0.31 |
| 1919 | 302 | #322 | 0.31 |
| 1918 | 285 | #340 | 0.28 |
| 1917 | 274 | #329 | 0.30 |
| 1916 | 223 | #364 | 0.25 |
| 1915 | 205 | #375 | 0.24 |
| 1914 | 159 | #376 | 0.24 |
| 1913 | 111 | #410 | 0.22 |
| 1912 | 107 | #372 | 0.25 |
| 1911 | 53 | #392 | 0.23 |
| 1910 | 31 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 55 | #311 | 0.34 |
| 1908 | 29 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1907 | 39 | #354 | 0.27 |
| 1906 | 22 | #476 | 0.17 |
| 1905 | 18 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 19 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1903 | 22 | #435 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 16 | #543 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 14 | #540 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 10 | #855 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 6 | #960 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 12 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 15 | #521 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 9 | #786 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 17 | #493 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 6 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 7 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,039 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 10 | #662 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 7 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 6 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 6 | #877 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 5 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 7 | #772 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 5 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #841 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delmar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delmar has been given almost only to boys: 134 girls in 144 years of records.
Girls and boys named Delmar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delmar, and how old are they?
4,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 31% of the 14,376 Americans ever recorded as Delmar. The median Delmar alive today is 64 years old; half are between 45 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 5,569 people named Delmar (112 women and girls, 5,457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,442 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 812 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,610 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 872 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 515 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 358 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 279 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Delmar born?
The states with the most babies named Delmar are Illinois, Ohio and Missouri, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 1,331 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 814 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 790 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Iowa | 652 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 569 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 467 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 462 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Nebraska | 431 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Kansas | 403 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Wisconsin | 375 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Delmar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delmar is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1910 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Delmar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 22,046 babies since 1880, Delmar is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 20 babies (75%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Delmar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Delmar and names like it
- Compare Delmar and DelmerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDelmar peaked in 1927.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delmar since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Delmar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Delmar.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delmar alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.