girls:
121 births since 1916
#5595 (2nd percentile)
boys:
46.9k births since 1880
#524 (89th percentile)
overall:
47k births since 1880
#1122 (86th percentile)
The name Delbert is the #1,122 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47,020 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #524 (88.6% percentile) for all time with 46,899 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,595 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 121 births since 1916.
Delbert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Delbert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Delbert reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 72.7% percentile (ranked #149) with 896 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 966 births per million (ranked 72.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Delbert ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Delbert reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #609) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delbert".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Delbert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Delbert is pronounced as DEHL-bert, which has 2 syllables.
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