Delphia
Delphia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 466th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1924116 births
- Best rank
- #466in 1893
- Since 1880
- 4,241people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,241 girls have been named Delphia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 116 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 116 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delphia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 125 | |
| 1890s | 283 | |
| 1900s | 397 | |
| 1910s | 822 | |
| 1920s | 938 | |
| 1930s | 547 | |
| 1940s | 366 | |
| 1950s | 335 | |
| 1960s | 224 | |
| 1970s | 109 | |
| 1980s | 47 | |
| 1990s | 11 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 27 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Delphia was the 689th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Delphia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Elvapeak 1918
- Eulapeak 1919
- Elmapeak 1918
- Pansypeak 1916
- Lessiepeak 1916
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Ednapeak 1918
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.