Deloise
Deloise was last recorded in 1979, when 8 babies were given it; 1,887 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Deloise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 66 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deloise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deloise?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,472, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
86 babies in 1953, the peak
Deloise peaked in 1953, when 86 girls were given it, #1,042 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 8 | #7,472 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,394 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,415 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,684 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,351 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,681 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,462 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,561 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,892 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,509 | 14.5 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 13 | #3,595 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,419 | 14.2 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,022 | 18.5 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,986 | 18.2 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,174 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,599 | 24.8 |
| 1960 | 48 | #1,620 | 23.7 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,501 | 25.7 |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,398 | 28.8 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,573 | 23.0 |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,438 | 26.9 |
| 1955 | 78 | #1,131 | 39.9 |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,335 | 28.8 |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,042 | 45.7 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,196 | 34.0 |
| 1951 | 71 | #1,104 | 39.4 |
| 1950 | 54 | #1,251 | 31.5 |
| 1949 | 62 | #1,156 | 36.2 |
| 1948 | 63 | #1,125 | 37.1 |
| 1947 | 58 | #1,186 | 32.7 |
| 1946 | 59 | #1,110 | 37.5 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,234 | 32.1 |
| 1944 | 47 | #1,142 | 35.4 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,342 | 26.5 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,250 | 30.4 |
| 1941 | 47 | #1,069 | 38.9 |
| 1940 | 46 | #1,063 | 40.2 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,271 | 31.0 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,272 | 29.9 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,309 | 29.1 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,451 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,458 | 24.8 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,420 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,985 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,571 | 22.5 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,603 | 21.6 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,334 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,218 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,111 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,585 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,017 | 16.0 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,168 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,695 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,507 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,733 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,807 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,061 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,265 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,406 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,803 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,033 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deloise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deloise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deloise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deloise, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 1,887 Americans ever recorded as Deloise. The median Deloise alive today is 72 years old; half are between 66 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 858 people named Deloise (853 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,340 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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 | 193 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 810 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 152 |
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 Deloise born?
The states with the most babies named Deloise are Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 257 | not ranked | 7.4× |
| Alabama | 176 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| North Carolina | 144 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 82 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Arkansas | 61 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 45 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Deloise is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deloise is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1916 it was given 7.4 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 Deloise 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,894 babies since 1880, Deloise is the second most given (27% 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 Deloise
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 Deloise and names like it
- Compare Deloise and DelisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDeloise peaked in 1953.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deloise since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Deloise.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Deloise alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.