Delphina

#12,222 in 2025Girls' name

Of Delphi

Delphina has been given to 910 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #12,222 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Delphina, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delphina: meaning, origin, and history

Of Delphi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delphina means

Delphina means “of Delphi”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Delphina is used in Late Roman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 910 girls were recorded with the name Delphina between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,733 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,346 in 2020 to #12,222 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,131 in 2015 to #12,222 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Delphina?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #12,222; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Delphina 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delphina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delphinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delphina was born before 1954 — so the typical Delphina is around 71 today.

Median birth year: 1954; About 71 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 16.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 490; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 16.6% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Delphina 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: −2,498; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −876; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +4,909; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.40×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 28.0%; Peak was 1921 (25)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,733; 1921

Spellings of Delphina

Delphina is not the most common spelling — Delphine is, with 39.1% against Delphina's 3.4%.

Delphine39.1%10,448
Delphia15.9%4,251
Delfina15.1%4,037
Delpha7.6%2,025
Delina7.2%1,931
Delaina6.0%1,593
Despina5.7%1,523
Delphina3.4%910

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 Delphina is used

Across 1910–2025, Delphina was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 293,590 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Arizona1 in 100,000
2California1 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. Delphina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delphina around the world

Where Delphina 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
2011–2025
#2,605
in 2025
France
1926–1991
#3,219
in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Delphina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #12,222
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 876
Best rank ever: #1,733; 1921
Peak year: 1921; 25 that year
First recorded: 1902
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 910
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Delphina

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

Delaina Delfina Delina Delvina Delayna Delainey Delaynie Delcina Deliliah Delylah Sarafina Delayza Deluvina Delanee Delories Andreina Delorise Emmalina Natalina Delailah Marlaina Delaine Deliyah Delyla

Sibling names for Delphina

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

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For a brother

Granville Buford Eldridge Trinidad Vern Barney Lyman Waldo

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