How Many People Are Named Delma?
people named Delma are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 97,904 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,901 babies named Delma in Social Security records from 1884 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
250 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of FIDELMA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Delma, 89.7% were girls and 10.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1890s: 100% of the babies were girls then and 92.4% in the 1980s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Delma alive today is about 68 years old, and 74% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 59 and 79 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Delma first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 1926, to 250 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Delma has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #448, in 1907. Among boys, its best rank was #983, in 1935.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #448 (1907) | #983 (1935) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #537 in the 1920s | #1,164 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Delma alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Delma were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,027 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Delma was given 6 times as often in Texas, 3.8 times in West Virginia and 2.3 times in Kentucky.
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