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Delroy

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Delroy has been given to 1,417 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1992, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Delroy, 2023

1 in 368,000

Delroy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delroy: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delroy means

Delroy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Delroy is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,417 boys were recorded with the name Delroy between 1916 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,152 in 1937.

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 Delroy?

Delroy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delroy 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delroy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delroys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delroy was born before 1965 — so the typical Delroy is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
13.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
973
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 13.4% of all recorded uses (190).

Is Delroy 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 1992 (34)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,152
1937

Spellings of Delroy

Delroy is not the most common spelling — Leroy is, with 83.1% against Delroy's 0.59%.

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 Delroy is used

Across 1910–2025, Delroy was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 105,177 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Delroy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delroy around the world

Where Delroy 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
    1998–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2007–2025
    #5,373
    in 2025

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.

Delroy 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
#1,152
1937
Peak year
1992
34 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,417
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delroy

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

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Sibling names for Delroy

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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