Delpha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Delpha

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,025 babies named Delpha between 1882 and 1979, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delpha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1979. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 74 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Delpha performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 548 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Delpha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Missouri, which accounts for 98 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Delpha in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Delpha 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 2,025 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.