Delois
Delois was last recorded in 1999, when 7 babies were given it; 8,622 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,810 Americans named Delois and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 67 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delois by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delois?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,683, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
321 babies in 1948, the peak
Delois peaked in 1948, when 321 girls were given it, #445 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #11,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,583 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,519 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,718 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 11 | #6,132 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,952 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,520 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,472 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,437 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,837 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,310 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,793 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,954 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,300 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,935 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,832 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,611 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,933 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,812 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 62 | #1,438 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,181 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 87 | #1,136 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 91 | #1,156 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 131 | #920 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 113 | #1,008 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 132 | #938 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 151 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 153 | #829 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 164 | #779 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 253 | #618 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 242 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 241 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 236 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 250 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1952 | 283 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1951 | 270 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1950 | 254 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1949 | 278 | #480 | 0.16 |
| 1948 | 321 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1947 | 290 | #482 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 282 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1945 | 233 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1944 | 242 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1943 | 225 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1942 | 217 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1941 | 218 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1940 | 189 | #502 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 163 | #522 | 0.15 |
| 1938 | 184 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1937 | 189 | #477 | 0.18 |
| 1936 | 173 | #492 | 0.17 |
| 1935 | 160 | #505 | 0.15 |
| 1934 | 175 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1933 | 131 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 137 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 110 | #634 | 0.10 |
| 1930 | 117 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 80 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 90 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 79 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 91 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 85 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 48 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 54 | #1,024 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,490 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,817 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delois a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,622 Americans recorded as Delois, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Delois: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delois, and how old are they?
4,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 56% of the 8,622 Americans ever recorded as Delois. The median Delois alive today is 74 years old; half are between 67 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 4,275 people named Delois (4,241 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,731 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,050 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 504 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7 |
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 Delois born?
The states with the most babies named Delois are North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 963 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Alabama | 904 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Mississippi | 760 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Arkansas | 727 | not ranked | 5.6× |
| Texas | 642 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 561 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Georgia | 523 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Virginia | 439 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Oklahoma | 322 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| South Carolina | 210 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Delois is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delois is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1912 it was given 5.6 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 girls’ 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 Delois with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Delois
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 Delois and names like it
- Compare Delois and DeloriseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDelois peaked in 1948.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delois since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Delois.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delois alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.