Delphia
Delphia was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,608 among girls’ names; 4,251 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delphia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delphia?
#9,608 among girls’ names, 2025
Delphia rose from #14,971 in 2015 to #9,608 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 6.2 per million.
116 babies in 1924, the peak
Delphia peaked in 1924, when 116 girls were given it, #689 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,608 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,877 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,057 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,090 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,971 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,228 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,928 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #11,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,309 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,022 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,365 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,597 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,476 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,228 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,870 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,302 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,682 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,735 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,836 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,043 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,989 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,353 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,906 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,947 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,185 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 53 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,964 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,425 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,827 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,909 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,422 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,439 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,210 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 54 | #994 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 53 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 54 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 61 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 65 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 69 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 69 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 76 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 83 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 96 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 81 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 80 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 116 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 96 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 104 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 113 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 93 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 105 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 85 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 112 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 95 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 95 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 78 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1913 | 70 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 74 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 58 | #558 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 50 | #588 | 0.13 |
| 1909 | 45 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 44 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 45 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 44 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 30 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 31 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 42 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1902 | 40 | #504 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 40 | #476 | 0.17 |
| 1900 | 36 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 30 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 37 | #511 | 0.14 |
| 1897 | 33 | #511 | 0.14 |
| 1896 | 30 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 25 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1894 | 27 | #559 | 0.12 |
| 1893 | 33 | #466 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 26 | #541 | 0.12 |
| 1891 | 20 | #593 | 0.11 |
| 1890 | 22 | #563 | 0.12 |
| 1889 | 25 | #499 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 21 | #553 | 0.12 |
| 1887 | 13 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 14 | #610 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 16 | #546 | 0.12 |
| 1884 | 10 | #695 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 12 | #565 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 7 | #761 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 7 | #689 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delphia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delphia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delphia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delphia, and how old are they?
An estimated 993 Americans named Delphia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,123 people named Delphia (1,119 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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 Delphia born?
The states with the most babies named Delphia are Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and West Virginia and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 393 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| West Virginia | 333 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| Tennessee | 152 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 150 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 140 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 110 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 93 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 91 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Delphia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delphia is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 5.8 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 Delphia 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,276 babies since 1880, Delphia is the most given (68% 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 Delphia
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 Delphia and names like it
- Compare Delphia and DelphaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDelphia peaked in 1924.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delphia since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Delphia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delphia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.