girls:
46 births since 1982
#5670 (1st percentile)
boys:
297 births since 1982
#4289 (6th percentile)
overall:
343 births since 1982
#7396 (4th percentile)
The name Delorean is the #7,396 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 343 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 4.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,289 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 297 births since 1982. For girls, it ranks #5,670 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1982.
Delorean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 . Birth data for Delorean is available in 27 out of the 42 years between 1982 and 2023 (27 years for boys and 6 years for girls). 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 Delorean has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Delorean were boys.
For boys, Delorean reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #667) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 14 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Delorean ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 19.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Delorean reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #783) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delorean".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Delorean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.3% confident that Delorean is pronounced as duh-LAW-ree-uhn, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-LAW-ree-uhn, at 39.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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