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Delmer

#12,480 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delmer has been given to 7,670 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #12,480 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 205 recorded.

Babies named Delmer, 2025

1 in 663,000

Delmer over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delmer: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delmer means

Delmer is a given name.

The naming story behind Delmer

Wikidata records Delmer as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q94591545, 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, 7,654 boys were recorded with the name Delmer between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 205 in 1924; its best national rank was #405 in 1935.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,808 in 2020 to #12,480 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,999 in 2015 to #12,480 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Delmer between 1917 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1917; its best national rank was #4,213 in 1917.

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 Delmer?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,480
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delmer 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delmer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delmers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delmer was born before 1934 — so the typical Delmer is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,675
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1920s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (1,906).

Is Delmer 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
−2,672
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,481
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.4%
Peak was 1924 (205)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#405
1935

Spellings of Delmer

Delmer is not the most common spelling — Elmer is, with 43.3% against Delmer's 2.6%.

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 Delmer is used

Across 1910–2025, Delmer was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 4,167 boys, against 1 in 27,883 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 4,167
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 4,762
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 6,667
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 6,667
  5. 5South Dakota1 in 6,667
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 9,091
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 11,111
  8. 8Kansas1 in 12,500

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

Notable people named Delmer

People whose public names include Delmer, 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.

Delmer in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Delmer. Linked forms have their own page here.

DelElmer

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Delmer by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,480
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,672
Best rank ever
#405
1935
Peak year
1924
205 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,654
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,213
1917
Peak year
1917
6 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delmer

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

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Names with a curve like Delmer

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

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Sibling names for Delmer

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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