Delorean — boys' name

What the Data Says About Delorean

The Social Security Administration has registered 297 babies named Delorean between 1982 and 2023, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Delorean currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Delorean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 46 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Delorean performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 151 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Delorean shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Delorean in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Delorean 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 297 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.