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Delmas

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delmas has been given to 2,259 babies in the U.S. since 1906. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Delmas, 2003

1 in 760,000

Delmas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delmas: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delmas means

Delmas is a given name.

The naming story behind Delmas

Wikidata records Delmas as a given name. The entity identifier is Q115859702, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,259 boys were recorded with the name Delmas between 1906 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 83 in 1947; its best national rank was #565 in 1907.

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.

How common is Delmas?

Delmas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 395,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delmas 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 2003 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 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delmas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delmass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delmas was born before 1943 — so the typical Delmas is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
718
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (613).

Is Delmas 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (83)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#565
1907

Spellings of Delmas

Delmas is not the most common spelling — Elias is, with 55.4% against Delmas's 0.97%.

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 Delmas is used

Across 1910–2025, Delmas was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 63,175 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 4,762
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 33,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Oklahoma1 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. Delmas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Delmas

People whose public names include Delmas, 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.

Delmas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#565
1907
Peak year
1947
83 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
2,259
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delmas

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

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Names with a curve like Delmas

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

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Sibling names for Delmas

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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