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Delbert: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #150 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #150 in 1920; #6,901 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delbert in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,901 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #150.
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Delbert: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #150 in 1920 · most boys in one year: 1,038 (1932).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Delbert, making it the 6,901st most common boys’ name of the year, down 645 places from #6,256 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 boys named Delbert in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #150, reached in 1920. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,038, in 1932. For comparison, it was #4,432 in 2015 and #278 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delbert in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 44 babies with the name. In all, 47,056 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 9,736 babies named Delbert.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 180 US boys were named Delbert; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dilbert are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bert and Del.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dilbert (18).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Delbert is listed as a nickname for Adelbert.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #6,901 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,256 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,512 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #5,935 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,607 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,944 |
| 2019 | — | — | 19 | #5,005 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,635 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,506 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,432 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,739 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,660 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,084 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,267 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,465 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,166 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,040 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,541 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,857 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,961 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,941 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,566 |
| 2001 | — | — | 31 | #2,946 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,819 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,361 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,468 |
| 1997 | — | — | 42 | #2,104 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,118 |
| 1995 | — | — | 67 | #1,459 |
| 1994 | — | — | 67 | #1,437 |
| 1993 | — | — | 61 | #1,515 |
| 1992 | — | — | 68 | #1,373 |
| 1991 | — | — | 83 | #1,216 |
| 1990 | — | — | 92 | #1,120 |
| 1989 | — | — | 72 | #1,285 |
| 1988 | — | — | 85 | #1,078 |
| 1987 | — | — | 85 | #1,033 |
| 1986 | — | — | 110 | #868 |
| 1985 | — | — | 114 | #841 |
| 1984 | — | — | 106 | #856 |
| 1983 | — | — | 135 | #746 |
| 1982 | — | — | 107 | #861 |
| 1981 | — | — | 131 | #761 |
| 1980 | — | — | 137 | #749 |
| 1979 | — | — | 150 | #698 |
| 1978 | — | — | 139 | #713 |
| 1977 | — | — | 171 | #649 |
| 1976 | — | — | 150 | #671 |
| 1975 | — | — | 167 | #627 |
| 1974 | — | — | 200 | #567 |
| 1973 | — | — | 234 | #508 |
| 1972 | — | — | 218 | #539 |
| 1971 | — | — | 251 | #515 |
| 1970 | — | — | 255 | #505 |
| 1969 | — | — | 267 | #467 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,252 | 282 | #456 |
| 1967 | — | — | 322 | #424 |
| 1966 | — | — | 366 | #392 |
| 1965 | — | — | 373 | #407 |
| 1964 | — | — | 398 | #397 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,036 | 437 | #381 |
| 1962 | — | — | 497 | #354 |
| 1961 | — | — | 478 | #363 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,573 | 490 | #353 |
| 1959 | — | — | 557 | #330 |
| 1958 | — | — | 568 | #323 |
| 1957 | — | — | 567 | #323 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,439 | 617 | #298 |
| 1955 | — | — | 654 | #280 |
| 1954 | — | — | 606 | #289 |
| 1953 | — | — | 616 | #284 |
| 1952 | — | — | 641 | #273 |
| 1951 | — | — | 609 | #274 |
| 1950 | — | — | 569 | #278 |
| 1949 | — | — | 608 | #265 |
| 1948 | — | — | 693 | #246 |
| 1947 | — | — | 724 | #244 |
| 1946 | — | — | 678 | #231 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,699 | 641 | #215 |
| 1944 | — | — | 745 | #200 |
| 1943 | — | — | 788 | #204 |
| 1942 | — | — | 797 | #197 |
| 1941 | — | — | 756 | #192 |
| 1940 | — | — | 813 | #180 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,390 | 843 | #174 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,467 | 874 | #169 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,895 | 909 | #161 |
| 1936 | — | — | 882 | #163 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,354 | 861 | #165 |
| 1934 | — | — | 894 | #163 |
| 1933 | — | — | 921 | #157 |
| 1932 | — | — | 1,038 | #151 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,563 | 932 | #159 |
| 1930 | — | — | 1,013 | #151 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,756 | 962 | #157 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,299 | 1,023 | #154 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,346 | 964 | #159 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,312 | 916 | #163 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,166 | 898 | #167 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,095 | 988 | #161 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,118 | 997 | #156 |
| 1922 | — | — | 976 | #162 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,297 | 972 | #156 |
| 1920 | — | — | 982 | #150 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,982 | 848 | #157 |
| 1918 | — | — | 833 | #164 |
| 1917 | — | — | 775 | #162 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,330 | 743 | #161 |
| 1915 | — | — | 630 | #179 |
| 1914 | — | — | 472 | #184 |
| 1913 | — | — | 369 | #184 |
| 1912 | — | — | 325 | #180 |
| 1911 | — | — | 140 | #209 |
| 1910 | — | — | 122 | #212 |
| 1909 | — | — | 91 | #226 |
| 1908 | — | — | 92 | #216 |
| 1907 | — | — | 88 | #215 |
| 1906 | — | — | 89 | #197 |
| 1905 | — | — | 72 | #229 |
| 1904 | — | — | 59 | #247 |
| 1903 | — | — | 50 | #261 |
| 1902 | — | — | 51 | #259 |
| 1901 | — | — | 38 | #279 |
| 1900 | — | — | 44 | #319 |
| 1899 | — | — | 49 | #238 |
| 1898 | — | — | 48 | #256 |
| 1897 | — | — | 42 | #279 |
| 1896 | — | — | 46 | #266 |
| 1895 | — | — | 33 | #320 |
| 1894 | — | — | 30 | #324 |
| 1893 | — | — | 31 | #313 |
| 1892 | — | — | 43 | #276 |
| 1891 | — | — | 37 | #265 |
| 1890 | — | — | 28 | #329 |
| 1889 | — | — | 32 | #306 |
| 1888 | — | — | 45 | #265 |
| 1887 | — | — | 28 | #312 |
| 1886 | — | — | 30 | #313 |
| 1885 | — | — | 42 | #257 |
| 1884 | — | — | 46 | #254 |
| 1883 | — | — | 43 | #248 |
| 1882 | — | — | 46 | #250 |
| 1881 | — | — | 27 | #314 |
| 1880 | — | — | 44 | #250 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).