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Delphi

Girls' name

Diminutive of Delphine

Delphi has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2021, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Delphi, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delphi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Delphine

Ancient Greek

What Delphi means

Delphi is a diminutive of Delphine.

Origin, language, and formation

Delphi is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Delphi comes through Latin Delphi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Delphine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Delphi is pronounced /ˈdɛlfi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Delphi between 2019 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2021; its best national rank was #11,374 in 2021.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Delphi?

Delphi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delphi 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delphi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delphis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delphi was born before 2021 — so the typical Delphi is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
78.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
23
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Delphi 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (8)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,374
2021

Spellings of Delphi

Delphi is not the most common spelling — Delphine is, with 50.5% against Delphi's 0.11%.

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.

Delphi around the world

Where Delphi 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Delphi 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
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Best rank ever
#11,374
2021
Peak year
2021
8 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delphi

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

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Sibling names for Delphi

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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