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Delphia

#9,608 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly womb

Delphia has been given to 4,251 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,608 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 116 recorded.

Babies named Delphia, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delphia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly womb

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delphia means

Delphia may mean “womb”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,251 girls were recorded with the name Delphia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 116 in 1924; its best national rank was #466 in 1893.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,971 in 2015 to #9,608 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.

How common is Delphia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,608
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delphia 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delphia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delphias were born

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

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
773
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (938).

Is Delphia 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
+6,269
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,363
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.6%
Peak was 1924 (116)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#466
1893

Spellings of Delphia

Delphia is not the most common spelling — Delia is, with 63.8% against Delphia's 7.3%.

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 Delphia is used

Across 1910–2025, Delphia was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 47,804 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 4,545
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 7,143
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 16,667
  4. 4Missouri1 in 25,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 25,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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

Delphia around the world

Where Delphia 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.

  • France
    1986–1986
    #1,953
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1947–1947
    #366
    in 1947

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Delphia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,608
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#466
1893
Peak year
1924
116 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,251
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Delphia

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

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Names with a curve like Delphia

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

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Sibling names for Delphia

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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