Delroy
Delroy was last recorded in 2023, when 9 babies were given it; 1,417 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delroy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Delroy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Delroy is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Delroy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,407, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1992, the peak
Delroy peaked in 1992, when 34 boys were given it, #2,221 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | #8,407 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,195 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,979 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,023 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,041 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,515 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,286 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,058 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,312 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,942 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #8,982 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,327 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,486 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,799 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,553 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,782 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,168 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,462 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,475 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,941 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,433 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,143 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,699 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,625 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,051 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,581 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,131 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,064 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,221 | 17.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,922 | 10.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,977 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,302 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,874 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,744 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,484 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,738 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,989 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,290 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,176 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,930 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,056 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,041 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,210 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,290 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,536 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,716 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,837 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,060 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,696 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,224 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,673 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,350 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,817 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,828 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,107 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,804 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,979 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #1,984 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,745 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,232 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 17 | #1,991 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,965 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,847 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,731 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 23 | #1,621 | 11.2 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,789 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,848 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,407 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,073 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,348 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,490 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,049 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,401 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,836 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,591 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,538 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,202 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,885 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,422 | 18.7 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,340 | 21.6 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,737 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,490 | 18.9 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,152 | 30.9 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,428 | 21.2 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,459 | 21.1 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,042 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,659 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,022 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,869 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,987 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,046 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,423 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,960 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,003 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,466 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,577 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,547 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,929 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,330 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,054 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delroy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delroy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delroy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delroy, and how old are they?
An estimated 952 Americans named Delroy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 30 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,659 people named Delroy (10 women and girls, 2,649 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,028 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Delroy born?
The states with the most babies named Delroy are New York, Minnesota and Florida, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 154 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 81 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Florida | 43 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 22 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Delroy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delroy is most over-represented in New York: since 1916 it was given 1.4 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 boys’ 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 Delroy 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 1,895 babies since 1880, Delroy is the most given (75% 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 Delroy
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 Delroy and names like it
- Compare Delroy and DelrayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDelroy peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delroy since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Delroy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Delroy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.