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Delmar

#5,917 in 2025Boys' name

The pond

Delmar has been given to 14,376 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,917 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1931, with 354 recorded.

Babies named Delmar, 2025

1 in 221,000

Delmar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delmar: meaning, origin, and history

The pond

surname transfer

What Delmar means

Delmar means “the pond”, associated with Mare.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Contraction of Delamare and de la Mare, from places in Normandy named La Mare (“the pond”). In the US, also borrowed from Catalan del Mar (“of the sea”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Delmar (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Delmar is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include surname transfer.

Delmar comes through Catalan del Mar.

Delmar is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Delamare.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,242 boys were recorded with the name Delmar between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 354 in 1931; its best national rank was #294 in 1931.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,305 in 2020 to #5,917 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,797 in 2015 to #5,917 in 2025.

In the United States, 134 girls were recorded with the name Delmar between 1910 and 1957. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,502 in 1910.

How common is Delmar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,917
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delmar 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delmar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delmars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delmar was born before 1935 — so the typical Delmar is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,976
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Choose a decade

1920s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (3,207).

Is Delmar 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
−1,180
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,612
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−120
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 1931 (354)
Years since peak
94
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#294
1931

Spellings of Delmar

Delmar is not the most common spelling — Elmer is, with 76.2% against Delmar's 8.4%.

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 Delmar is used

Across 1910–2025, Delmar was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 3,030 boys, against 1 in 16,078 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

033 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 3,030
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 3,125
  3. 3Iowa1 in 3,571
  4. 4Kansas1 in 4,545
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 4,762
  6. 6Missouri1 in 5,000
  7. 7North Dakota1 in 5,882
  8. 8Illinois1 in 6,250

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. Delmar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delmar around the world

Where Delmar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1972–1972
    #1,731
    in 1972
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #512
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Delmar

People whose public names include Delmar, 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.

Delmar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,917
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,612
Best rank ever
#294
1931
Peak year
1931
354 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,242
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,502
1910
Peak year
1915
10 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
1957
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delmar

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

DelmerDelanoDelvinDeltonDelbertShamarJamarDelvonDelfinoDeleonDelwynDellNeymarLamarShemarDelonDelmasDelaneyDelwinDelAmmarDelroyDelanteAmar

Names with a curve like Delmar

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

MerlinMaynardWeldonMerrillOdellRollandLaverneLavernIrwinHershelBurtonWilburn

Sibling names for Delmar

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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