Delmira
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Delmira has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1935. 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 1959, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Delmira, 1991
1 in 779,000
Delmira over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Delmira?
Delmira had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 779,000
- 5 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 375,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 539,676 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Delmira sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delmira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Delmiras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Delmira was born before 1961 — so the typical Delmira is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 39.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 52
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Delmira 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 1959 (8)
- Years since peak
- 66
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.2% average annual change
Spellings of Delmira
Delmira is not the most common spelling — Delia is, with 36.3% against Delmira's 0.06%.
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 Delmira is used
Across 1910–2025, Delmira was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 584,806 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Delmira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Delmira around the world
Where Delmira 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.
- France1969–1969#2,331in 1969
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Delmira by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Delmira
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Delmira
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.