Delvin
Delvin was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,575 among boys’ names; 5,355 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,180 Americans named Delvin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 24 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delvin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delvin?
#4,575 among boys’ names, 2025
Delvin fell from #3,710 in 2015 to #4,575 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 12.9 per million.
194 babies in 1978, the peak
Delvin peaked in 1978, when 194 babies were given it (186 boys, #612 among boys’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,575 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,223 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,487 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,068 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 47 | #2,667 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,060 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,309 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,081 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,121 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,710 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,676 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,641 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,674 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,645 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,296 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,330 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,345 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,292 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,816 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 70 | #1,786 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 74 | #1,673 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 71 | #1,661 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 67 | #1,712 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 80 | #1,502 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 69 | #1,580 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 70 | #1,535 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 71 | #1,486 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,359 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,272 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 87 | #1,241 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 52 | #1,586 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,164 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,036 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 92 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 115 | #819 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 164 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 186 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 130 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 77 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 42 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,258 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,195 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,204 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,370 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,091 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,309 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,169 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,315 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,310 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,123 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,326 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,058 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,305 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,239 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 57 | #1,004 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,143 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,186 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,171 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,046 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,032 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,197 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,320 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,516 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,260 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,277 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,262 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,386 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,039 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,144 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,072 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,316 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,125 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,113 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 42 | #971 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,075 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,149 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,195 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,156 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,207 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,769 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,079 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,405 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,087 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,203 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,207 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,314 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delvin has been given almost only to boys: 27 girls in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Delvin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delvin, and how old are they?
4,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 5,355 Americans ever recorded as Delvin. The median Delvin alive today is 39 years old; half are between 24 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 3,786 people named Delvin (81 women and girls, 3,705 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,227 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 111 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 502 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,020 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 985 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 432 |
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 Delvin born?
The states with the most babies named Delvin are Texas, Florida and Louisiana, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 434 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 330 | #1,898 | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 210 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 180 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 84 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 73 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 71 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 68 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 62 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Delvin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delvin is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1914 it was given 2.0 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 Delvin 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 6,503 babies since 1880, Delvin is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 30 babies (73%), again the most given.
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 Delvin
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 Delvin and names like it
- Compare Delvin and DelvonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDelvin peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delvin since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Delvin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Delvin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.