Delton
#5,666 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Delton has been given to 4,751 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #5,666 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1933, with 77 recorded.
Babies named Delton, 2025
1 in 207,000
Delton over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Delton?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,666
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Delton sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deltons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Delton was born before 1955 — so the typical Delton is around 70 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 13.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,678
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 13.7% of all recorded uses (651).
Is Delton 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
- +1,257
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −929
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −103
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.8%
- Peak was 1933 (77)
- Years since peak
- 92
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.6% average annual change
Spellings of Delton
Delton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 13.9% against Delton's 0.43%.
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 Delton is used
Across 1910–2025, Delton was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 67,103 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
- 2North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 3Texas1 in 20,000
- 4Arkansas1 in 25,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 6North Dakota1 in 50,000
- 7Oklahoma1 in 50,000
- 8Nebraska1 in 100,000
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. Delton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Delton around the world
Where Delton 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 & Wales1996–2021#4,789in 2021
- Canada1998–1998#1,953in 1998
- South Australia1959–2003#588in 2003
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.
Delton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Delton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Delton
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Delton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Delton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.