Delmus
Delmus was last recorded in 1981, when 7 babies were given it; 599 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delmus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delmus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,060, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1938, the peak
Delmus peaked in 1938, when 18 boys were given it, #1,627 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 | #5,060 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,675 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,499 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,289 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,756 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,165 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,143 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,082 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,339 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 | #4,271 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,093 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,074 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,034 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,703 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,189 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,192 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,161 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,920 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,874 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,343 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,685 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,667 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,613 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,941 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,720 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,995 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,960 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,369 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,832 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,008 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,179 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,807 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,102 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,598 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,970 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,523 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,937 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,655 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,627 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,844 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,686 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,577 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 16 | #1,795 | 15.5 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,019 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,500 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,356 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,639 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,346 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,699 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,133 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,347 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,483 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,690 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,230 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,370 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,845 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,277 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,719 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,927 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,001 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,595 | 6.7 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,922 | 9.8 |
| 1907 | 9 | #939 | 61.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delmus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delmus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delmus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delmus, and how old are they?
An estimated 232 Americans named Delmus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 56 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 250 people named Delmus (0 women and girls, 250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 286 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,924 babies since 1880, Delmus is the second most given (20% 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 Delmus
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 Delmus and names like it
- Compare Delmus and DelmasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDelmus peaked in 1938.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delmus since 1910.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Delmus.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delmus alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.