Meaning not yet researched.
Delmar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #294 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #294 in 1931; #5,920 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delmar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,920 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #294.
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Delmar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #294 in 1931 · most boys in one year: 354 (1931).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Delmar, making it the 5,920th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,179 places from #4,741 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 21 boys named Delmar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #294, reached in 1931. That year also had the most boys given the name: 354. For comparison, it was #5,801 in 2015 and #558 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delmar in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 14,376 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,256 babies named Delmar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 211 US boys were named Delmar; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Delmer (7,670 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delmore, Dilmer and Delmor are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delmore (244), Dilmer (10), Delmor (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Delmar in the open dataset we use.
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 | — | — | 15 | #5,920 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,741 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,916 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,221 |
| 2021 | — | — | 22 | #4,524 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,309 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,839 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,395 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,149 |
| 2016 | — | — | 27 | #3,905 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,801 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,167 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,430 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,901 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,133 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,268 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,064 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,167 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,712 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,363 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,681 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,659 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,873 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #4,964 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,340 |
| 2000 | — | — | 28 | #3,098 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,297 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,116 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,631 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,135 |
| 1995 | — | — | 25 | #2,864 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,638 |
| 1993 | — | — | 31 | #2,413 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,478 |
| 1991 | — | — | 34 | #2,154 |
| 1990 | — | — | 43 | #1,817 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #2,001 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,048 |
| 1987 | — | — | 35 | #1,836 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,697 |
| 1985 | — | — | 39 | #1,624 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #1,992 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,496 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,784 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,275 |
| 1980 | — | — | 46 | #1,396 |
| 1979 | — | — | 50 | #1,307 |
| 1978 | — | — | 54 | #1,217 |
| 1977 | — | — | 55 | #1,188 |
| 1976 | — | — | 49 | #1,241 |
| 1975 | — | — | 69 | #985 |
| 1974 | — | — | 52 | #1,136 |
| 1973 | — | — | 69 | #973 |
| 1972 | — | — | 55 | #1,099 |
| 1971 | — | — | 62 | #1,036 |
| 1970 | — | — | 80 | #900 |
| 1969 | — | — | 66 | #946 |
| 1968 | — | — | 69 | #871 |
| 1967 | — | — | 75 | #828 |
| 1966 | — | — | 65 | #895 |
| 1965 | — | — | 77 | #838 |
| 1964 | — | — | 77 | #871 |
| 1963 | — | — | 106 | #753 |
| 1962 | — | — | 92 | #793 |
| 1961 | — | — | 91 | #800 |
| 1960 | — | — | 106 | #748 |
| 1959 | — | — | 106 | #742 |
| 1958 | — | — | 90 | #786 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,019 | 134 | #660 |
| 1956 | — | — | 126 | #673 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,039 | 125 | #657 |
| 1954 | — | — | 154 | #597 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,864 | 145 | #602 |
| 1952 | — | — | 138 | #601 |
| 1951 | — | — | 158 | #541 |
| 1950 | — | — | 147 | #558 |
| 1949 | — | — | 146 | #555 |
| 1948 | — | — | 170 | #507 |
| 1947 | — | — | 217 | #455 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,116 | 183 | #475 |
| 1945 | — | — | 149 | #493 |
| 1944 | — | — | 169 | #468 |
| 1943 | — | — | 215 | #423 |
| 1942 | — | — | 217 | #418 |
| 1941 | — | — | 239 | #374 |
| 1940 | — | — | 227 | #381 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,514 | 275 | #337 |
| 1938 | — | — | 263 | #345 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,399 | 259 | #338 |
| 1936 | — | — | 305 | #304 |
| 1935 | — | — | 289 | #318 |
| 1934 | — | — | 303 | #312 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,848 | 310 | #304 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,559 | 304 | #314 |
| 1931 | — | — | 354 | #294 |
| 1930 | — | — | 332 | #312 |
| 1929 | — | — | 300 | #318 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,875 | 332 | #304 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,947 | 353 | #307 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,642 | 314 | #321 |
| 1925 | — | — | 328 | #314 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,461 | 292 | #341 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,074 | 313 | #330 |
| 1922 | — | — | 310 | #328 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,597 | 330 | #321 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,062 | 335 | #315 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,382 | 302 | #322 |
| 1918 | — | — | 285 | #340 |
| 1917 | — | — | 274 | #329 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,034 | 223 | #364 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,743 | 205 | #375 |
| 1914 | — | — | 159 | #376 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,604 | 111 | #410 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,710 | 107 | #372 |
| 1911 | — | — | 53 | #392 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,502 | 31 | #501 |
| 1909 | — | — | 55 | #311 |
| 1908 | — | — | 29 | #455 |
| 1907 | — | — | 39 | #354 |
| 1906 | — | — | 22 | #476 |
| 1905 | — | — | 18 | #551 |
| 1904 | — | — | 19 | #497 |
| 1903 | — | — | 22 | #435 |
| 1902 | — | — | 16 | #543 |
| 1901 | — | — | 14 | #540 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #856 |
| 1899 | — | — | 6 | #961 |
| 1898 | — | — | 12 | #643 |
| 1897 | — | — | 15 | #521 |
| 1896 | — | — | 9 | #786 |
| 1895 | — | — | 17 | #493 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #980 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #876 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,039 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,003 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #662 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #765 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,002 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #857 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #877 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #930 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #772 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #899 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #841 |
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).