Delora
Delora is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 925th, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191756 births
- Best rank
- #925in 1917
- Since 1887
- 2,812people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,812 girls have been named Delora in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 56 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 56 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1930s alone account for 16%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delora | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 15 | |
| 1900s | 60 | |
| 1910s | 267 | |
| 1920s | 426 | |
| 1930s | 449 | |
| 1940s | 351 | |
| 1950s | 405 | |
| 1960s | 350 | |
| 1970s | 243 | |
| 1980s | 131 | |
| 1990s | 74 | |
| 2000s | 21 | |
| 2010s | 8 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Delora was the 925th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Delora
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Christenepeak 1925
- Lavonpeak 1924
- Onitapeak 1925
- Francepeak 1918
- Robbiepeak 1957
- Twilapeak 1960
- Vernettapeak 1951
- Jeanettepeak 1939
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.