boys:
2.3k births since 1906
#2655 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1906
#5540 (28th percentile)
The name Delmas is the #5,540 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,258 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 28.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,655 (42.1% percentile) for all time with 2,258 births since 1906.
Delmas first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (first recorded for boys in 1906). Birth data for Delmas is available in 87 out of the 98 years between 1906 and 2003. 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.
For boys, Delmas reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 13.1% percentile (ranked #519) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 120 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delmas".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Delmas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.6% confident that Delmas is pronounced as DEHL-muhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEHL-muhz, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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