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Delpha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delpha has been given to 2,025 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1921, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Delpha, 1979

1 in 665,000

Delpha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delpha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delpha means

Delpha is a given name.

The naming story behind Delpha

Wikidata records Delpha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q126949266, 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, 2,025 girls were recorded with the name Delpha between 1882 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1921; its best national rank was #658 in 1883.

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 Delpha?

Delpha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 665,000
5 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delpha 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 1979 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 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delpha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delphas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delpha was born before 1924 — so the typical Delpha is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
172
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1920s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (548).

Is Delpha 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 1921 (74)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#658
1883

Spellings of Delpha

Delpha is not the most common spelling — Della is, with 44.9% against Delpha's 1.3%.

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 Delpha is used

Across 1910–2025, Delpha was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 108,585 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 33,333
  3. 3Missouri1 in 33,333
  4. 4Iowa1 in 50,000
  5. 5Kansas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Idaho1 in 100,000
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 100,000

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

Delpha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#658
1883
Peak year
1921
74 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
2,025
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delpha

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

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Names with a curve like Delpha

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

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Sibling names for Delpha

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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