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Delfino

#9,936 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Delphinus

Delfino has been given to 2,360 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #9,936 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Delfino, 2025

1 in 474,000

Delfino over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delfino: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Delphinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delfino means

Delfino is a form of Delphinus.

Origin, language, and formation

Delfino is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Delphinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,360 boys were recorded with the name Delfino between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,277 in 1941.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,377 in 2020 to #9,936 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,763 in 2015 to #9,936 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Delfino?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,936
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delfino sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delfino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delfinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delfino was born before 1972 — so the typical Delfino is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
12.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,634
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 12.9% of all recorded uses (305).

Is Delfino rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,684
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,559
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,173
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.1%
Peak was 1999 (41)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,277
1941

Spellings of Delfino

Delfino is not the most common spelling — Delano is, with 36.8% against Delfino's 15.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Delfino is used

Across 1910–2025, Delfino was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 34,678 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Delfino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Delfino

People whose public names include Delfino, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Delfino by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,936
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,559
Best rank ever
#1,277
1941
Peak year
1999
41 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,360
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Delfino

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DelaneyDelanteDeltonDelvonPaulinoDelvinDelanoDeleonDelonteDelwynDelmerJustinoDelonDelmasAvelinoMarinoGabinoAntoninoMaximinoSabinoDelwinGavinoFortinoCatarino

Names with a curve like Delfino

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Delfino, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DionicioBlasModestoAnselmoRosalioCiprianoConradoCelestinoFidencioCecilioFaustinoFlorentino

Sibling names for Delfino

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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