Delphin

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Delphin has been given to 116 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1907, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Delphin, 1935

1 in 299,000

Delphin over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delphin: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delphin means

Delphin is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Delphin is used in Norman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 116 boys were recorded with the name Delphin between 1907 and 1935. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1907; its best national rank was #749 in 1907.

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 Delphin?

Delphin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1935, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1935: 1 in 299,000; 7 of 2,089,888 births
Among boys only: 1 in 149,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1935: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 206,944 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Delphin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1935 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 206,944 children born in 1935 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delphin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delphins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delphin was born before 1926 — so the typical Delphin is around 99 today.

Median birth year: 1926; About 99 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 53.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 88.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Delphin 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: —; 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 1907 (13)
Years since peak: 118; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #749; 1907

Spellings of Delphin

Delphin is not the most common spelling — Delvin is, with 73.3% against Delphin's 1.6%.

Delvin73.3%5,328
Delwin25.1%1,829
Delphin1.6%116

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.

Delphin around the world

Where Delphin 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
1900–2016
#5,087
in 2016

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Delphin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #749; 1907
Peak year: 1907; 13 that year
First recorded: 1907
Last recorded: 1935
All-time count: 116
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Delphin

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

Delijah Delani Delquan Delance Delsin Deloris Delando Deluca Delshon Delante Delrick Delphis Delayne Delaine Delmore Delrico Delois Delvis Deloyd Delynn Dellas Delson Delaney Delonta

Sibling names for Delphin

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis

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