Delos
Delos is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 680th, in 1890.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192349 births
- Best rank
- #680in 1890
- Since 1880
- 1,323people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,323 boys have been named Delos in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 49 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 49 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Delos | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 35 | |
| 1900s | 32 | |
| 1910s | 249 | |
| 1920s | 365 | |
| 1930s | 262 | |
| 1940s | 144 | |
| 1950s | 115 | |
| 1960s | 50 | |
| 1970s | 14 | |
| 1980s | 11 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Delos was the 998th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Delos
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mertonpeak 1920
- Bertrandpeak 1924
- Worthpeak 1918
- Newellpeak 1916
- Irvenpeak 1921
- Wilfordpeak 1926
- Bertrampeak 1923
- Rollinpeak 1925
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.