In 2025, 25 US girls were named Delfina, making it the 5,131st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,332 places from #6,463 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 18 girls named Delfina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #795, reached in 1925. That year also had the most girls given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #6,087 in 2015 and #1,367 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delfina in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 7 babies. In all, 4,037 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 634 babies named Delfina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 188 US girls were named Delfina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Delphine (10,481 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delphina are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.