Delora — girls' name

What the Data Says About Delora

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,812 babies named Delora between 1887 and 2021, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delora currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 56 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Delora performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 449 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Delora shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 67 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Delora in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Delora in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,812 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.