Deloris
Deloris was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 34,781 Americans have been recorded with it between 1899 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,000 Americans named Deloris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 67 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deloris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deloris?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,568, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
990 babies in 1947, the peak
Deloris peaked in 1947, when 990 girls were given it, #239 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #12,568 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,970 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,433 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,736 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,008 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,884 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,680 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,102 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #10,659 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,095 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,272 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,258 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,135 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,461 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,587 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,739 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,719 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,799 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,381 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,225 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,550 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,184 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,747 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,923 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,181 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,003 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,438 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,155 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,276 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,316 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,641 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,862 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 74 | #1,415 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 67 | #1,475 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 85 | #1,231 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 103 | #1,099 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 123 | #1,011 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 140 | #922 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 153 | #837 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 170 | #762 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 179 | #734 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 233 | #623 | 0.14 |
| 1965 | 258 | #604 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 290 | #582 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 287 | #583 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 318 | #550 | 0.16 |
| 1961 | 377 | #501 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 430 | #471 | 0.21 |
| 1959 | 436 | #462 | 0.22 |
| 1958 | 499 | #418 | 0.25 |
| 1957 | 554 | #388 | 0.27 |
| 1956 | 649 | #345 | 0.32 |
| 1955 | 636 | #337 | 0.33 |
| 1954 | 692 | #321 | 0.36 |
| 1953 | 738 | #302 | 0.39 |
| 1952 | 754 | #295 | 0.41 |
| 1951 | 790 | #280 | 0.44 |
| 1950 | 845 | #262 | 0.49 |
| 1949 | 864 | #258 | 0.51 |
| 1948 | 944 | #243 | 0.56 |
| 1947 | 990 | #239 | 0.56 |
| 1946 | 915 | #237 | 0.58 |
| 1945 | 827 | #229 | 0.63 |
| 1944 | 888 | #222 | 0.67 |
| 1943 | 929 | #216 | 0.67 |
| 1942 | 850 | #227 | 0.63 |
| 1941 | 886 | #204 | 0.73 |
| 1940 | 870 | #201 | 0.76 |
| 1939 | 826 | #209 | 0.75 |
| 1938 | 935 | #196 | 0.85 |
| 1937 | 931 | #193 | 0.87 |
| 1936 | 862 | #196 | 0.83 |
| 1935 | 859 | #200 | 0.82 |
| 1934 | 932 | #189 | 0.89 |
| 1933 | 908 | #187 | 0.90 |
| 1932 | 934 | #197 | 0.88 |
| 1931 | 916 | #200 | 0.86 |
| 1930 | 881 | #208 | 0.78 |
| 1929 | 670 | #236 | 0.60 |
| 1928 | 647 | #249 | 0.56 |
| 1927 | 561 | #284 | 0.47 |
| 1926 | 549 | #281 | 0.46 |
| 1925 | 485 | #302 | 0.40 |
| 1924 | 420 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1923 | 400 | #326 | 0.33 |
| 1922 | 364 | #340 | 0.30 |
| 1921 | 372 | #339 | 0.30 |
| 1920 | 269 | #405 | 0.22 |
| 1919 | 224 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1918 | 201 | #473 | 0.17 |
| 1917 | 199 | #459 | 0.18 |
| 1916 | 164 | #511 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 107 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 86 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 55 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 47 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 36 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 20 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 26 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,019 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 18 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,042 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deloris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deloris has been given almost only to girls: 98 boys in 115 years of records.
Girls and boys named Deloris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deloris, and how old are they?
16,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 34,781 Americans ever recorded as Deloris. The median Deloris alive today is 75 years old; half are between 67 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 16,930 people named Deloris (16,891 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,096 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 4,690 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8,990 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,660 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 458 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 138 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18 |
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 Deloris born?
The states with the most babies named Deloris are South Carolina, West Virginia and Illinois, with 17% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and West Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 2,167 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| West Virginia | 1,646 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Illinois | 1,570 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 1,434 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 1,419 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 1,405 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 1,295 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 1,289 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 1,288 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Minnesota | 1,286 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Deloris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deloris is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.2 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 Deloris 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 155,345 babies since 1880, Deloris is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 none of their 21 babies recorded by SSA was a Deloris (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Deloris
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 Deloris and names like it
- Compare Deloris and DeloresBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDeloris peaked in 1947.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deloris since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Deloris.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Deloris alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.