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Delton

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Delton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 673rd, in 1933.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
110.00% of boys
Peak year
193377 births
Best rank
#673in 1933
Since 1908
4,733people given the name
Babies named Delton, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

4,733 boys have been named Delton in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1933, with 77 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1930s alone account for 14%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Delton
1900s10
1910s224
1920s580
1930s651
1940s608
1950s603
1960s500
1970s408
1980s279
1990s310
2000s254
2010s219
2020s87

In 1933, its biggest year

Delton was the 673rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1933 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1933.

Names that rose and fell with Delton

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.