girls:
8.5k births since 1884
#1774 (69th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1905
#3197 (30th percentile)
overall:
9.9k births since 1884
#2686 (65th percentile)
The name Delma is the #2,686 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,901 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 65.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,774 (69.0% percentile) for all time with 8,454 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #3,197 (30.2% percentile) for all time with 1,447 births since 1905.
Delma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1905 for boys). Birth data for Delma is available in 122 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (122 years for girls and 69 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Delma has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Delma were girls.
For girls, Delma reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 30.8% percentile (ranked #418) with 167 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 190 births per million (ranked 15.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Delma ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Delma reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #506) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 50 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delma".
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