Delsa — girls' name
248 babies named Delsa in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1917. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
248 girls have been named Delsa since 1917, peaking in the 1920s, last recorded in 2025.
- 248
- total births
- 1917–2025
- years on record
- 1920s
- peak decade
- 21%
- born in that decade
21% of everyone ever named Delsa was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Delsa in 1917 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Delsa
The Social Security Administration has registered 248 babies named Delsa between 1917 and 2025, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delsa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Delsa performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 51 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Delsa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Delsa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Delsa 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 248 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.
Delsa at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Delsa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1917
- Peak year (1917)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 109 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
248 total births across 109 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1917 with 11 births in a single year.
Delsa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 51 births that decade — 21% of Delsa's all-time total
Delsa decade highlights
- Peak decade 51 births
- Runner-up 39 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Delsa's strongest decade
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Delsa by state
Where Delsa concentrates geographically — total births since 1917
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 2.4% |
6 of 248 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.