Delmy

#7,584 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Delmy has been given to 677 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #7,584 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Delmy, 2025

1 in 237,000

Delmy over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delmy: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delmy means

Delmy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Delmy is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Delmy is pronounced /ˈdelmi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 677 girls were recorded with the name Delmy between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1992; its best national rank was #4,113 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,913 in 2020 to #7,584 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,094 in 2015 to #7,584 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.

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How common is Delmy?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 237,000; 14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 115,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,584; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 164,137 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Delmy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delmy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delmys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delmy was born before 2002 — so the typical Delmy is around 23 today.

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 56.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 677; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (172).

Is Delmy 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: −2,395; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,671; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,510; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.17×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 56.0%; Peak was 1992 (25)
Years since peak: 33; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,113; 1992

Spellings of Delmy

Delmy is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 55.5% against Delmy's 0.08%.

Kelly55.5%473,965
Velma10.2%86,752
Della8.3%70,810
Delia4.4%37,318
Selma3.1%26,881
Elma2.5%21,703
Dolly2.4%20,592
Zelma2.0%16,824

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 Delmy is used

Across 1910–2025, Delmy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 134,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000
2Texas1 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. Delmy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delmy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,584
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,671
Best rank ever: #4,113; 1992
Peak year: 1992; 25 that year
First recorded: 1974
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 677
Count in 2025: 14

Names similar to Delmy

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

Delyla Delmi Dela Delsa Deliah Delcie Delany Delayna Delina Delara Delta Delani Delena Delayza Delanee Delynn Dellie Deliyah Dellar Delva Delene Delayla Delane Delaina

Sibling names for Delmy

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

For a sister

Jacquelynn Shelbi Shelbie Kacy Alesha Stefani Corrina Kia

For a brother

Brandan Coty Trever Bradly Garrick Laron Kelsey Arron

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