How Many People Are Named Delora?

1,419

people named Delora are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 240,863 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,812 babies named Delora in Social Security records from 1887 to 2021, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,439

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,711

See the top 100

Peak Year

1917

56 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: də-LAWR-ə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Altered form of DOLORES.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Delora in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Delora alive today is about 62 years old, and 61% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 52 and 75 in 2025.

Under 30 52
3.7%
30 to 59 508
35.8%
60 and over 858
60.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Delora first appears in the records in 1887 and was given most often in 1917, to 56 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2021.

Babies given the name each year, 1887 to 2021

🏆 Rank History

Delora has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #925, in 1917.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#925 (1917)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,065 in the 1930s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Delora alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Delora were born in California than in any other state: about 33 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Delora was given about 10.9 times as often in Kentucky.

California 33
Kentucky 11
Illinois 9
Texas 7
Ohio 7
West Virginia 5
Tennessee 5
Oklahoma 5
Missouri 5
Indiana 5
Michigan 4
Alabama 3
Arkansas 2
Washington 1

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