Delmas
Delmas was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 2,259 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delmas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delmas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,288, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
83 babies in 1947, the peak
Delmas peaked in 1947, when 83 boys were given it, #753 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #11,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,491 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,184 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,798 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #6,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,216 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,689 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,623 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,253 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,783 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,886 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,695 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,389 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,420 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,065 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,169 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,545 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 24 | #1,597 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,590 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,916 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,905 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #1,574 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,346 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,815 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,694 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #1,552 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,650 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,425 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,229 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,362 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,248 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,113 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,260 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 58 | #905 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 66 | #840 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 83 | #753 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 76 | #763 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 49 | #917 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 59 | #816 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 79 | #724 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 75 | #741 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,259 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,020 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 47 | #910 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 39 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 42 | #987 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 49 | #889 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,127 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 45 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,391 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,896 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,553 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,220 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 15 | #866 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 11 | #909 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 11 | #840 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 19 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 8 | #946 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delmas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delmas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delmas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delmas, and how old are they?
An estimated 876 Americans named Delmas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 57 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 949 people named Delmas (11 women and girls, 938 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,087 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Delmas born?
The states with the most babies named Delmas are West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910; West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 341 | not ranked | 10.3× |
| Virginia | 92 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Kentucky | 88 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 35 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Delmas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delmas is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 10.3 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 Delmas 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,924 babies since 1880, Delmas is the most given (77% of them).
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 Delmas
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 Delmas and names like it
- Compare Delmas and DelmusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDelmas peaked in 1947.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delmas since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Delmas.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delmas alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.