Meaning not yet researched.
Delmer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #405 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #405 in 1935; #12,484 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delmer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,484 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #405.
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Delmer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #405 in 1935 · most boys in one year: 205 (1924).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Delmer, making it the 12,484th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #405, reached in 1935. The most boys given the name in a single year was 205, in 1924. For comparison, it was #11,005 in 2015 and #763 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delmer in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 7 babies. In all, 7,670 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,911 babies named Delmer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42 US boys were named Delmer; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elmer (131,344 babies since 1880), Del (4,970 babies since 1880) and Delmar (14,376 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Delmer 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 | — | — | 5 | #12,484 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,856 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #7,736 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #9,814 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #12,741 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #12,655 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #11,005 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #8,970 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,405 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #12,740 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #12,719 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,188 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,191 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,339 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,559 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,311 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,297 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,657 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,712 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,608 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,318 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,362 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,327 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,180 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,179 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,062 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,670 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,640 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,494 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,238 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,646 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,472 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,123 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,654 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,219 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,149 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,076 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,909 |
| 1979 | — | — | 15 | #2,924 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,589 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,386 |
| 1976 | — | — | 29 | #1,755 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,223 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,941 |
| 1973 | — | — | 21 | #1,997 |
| 1972 | — | — | 23 | #1,881 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,935 |
| 1970 | — | — | 32 | #1,499 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,690 |
| 1968 | — | — | 38 | #1,236 |
| 1967 | — | — | 28 | #1,451 |
| 1966 | — | — | 42 | #1,153 |
| 1965 | — | — | 38 | #1,240 |
| 1964 | — | — | 40 | #1,221 |
| 1963 | — | — | 43 | #1,181 |
| 1962 | — | — | 45 | #1,155 |
| 1961 | — | — | 45 | #1,185 |
| 1960 | — | — | 54 | #1,047 |
| 1959 | — | — | 54 | #1,053 |
| 1958 | — | — | 64 | #952 |
| 1957 | — | — | 51 | #1,066 |
| 1956 | — | — | 72 | #880 |
| 1955 | — | — | 82 | #808 |
| 1954 | — | — | 86 | #770 |
| 1953 | — | — | 77 | #819 |
| 1952 | — | — | 80 | #787 |
| 1951 | — | — | 80 | #787 |
| 1950 | — | — | 81 | #763 |
| 1949 | — | — | 80 | #770 |
| 1948 | — | — | 109 | #650 |
| 1947 | — | — | 112 | #652 |
| 1946 | — | — | 127 | #571 |
| 1945 | — | — | 96 | #618 |
| 1944 | — | — | 113 | #577 |
| 1943 | — | — | 123 | #570 |
| 1942 | — | — | 134 | #528 |
| 1941 | — | — | 131 | #517 |
| 1940 | — | — | 134 | #502 |
| 1939 | — | — | 155 | #463 |
| 1938 | — | — | 180 | #425 |
| 1937 | — | — | 172 | #430 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,335 | 181 | #407 |
| 1935 | — | — | 182 | #405 |
| 1934 | — | — | 185 | #409 |
| 1933 | — | — | 158 | #438 |
| 1932 | — | — | 176 | #422 |
| 1931 | — | — | 171 | #434 |
| 1930 | — | — | 178 | #439 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,730 | 192 | #425 |
| 1928 | — | — | 185 | #440 |
| 1927 | — | — | 181 | #455 |
| 1926 | — | — | 186 | #444 |
| 1925 | — | — | 190 | #433 |
| 1924 | — | — | 205 | #428 |
| 1923 | — | — | 204 | #424 |
| 1922 | — | — | 180 | #461 |
| 1921 | — | — | 194 | #441 |
| 1920 | — | — | 189 | #441 |
| 1919 | — | — | 188 | #429 |
| 1918 | — | — | 160 | #469 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,215 | 154 | #454 |
| 1916 | — | — | 137 | #484 |
| 1915 | — | — | 113 | #524 |
| 1914 | — | — | 80 | #557 |
| 1913 | — | — | 66 | #532 |
| 1912 | — | — | 45 | #616 |
| 1911 | — | — | 25 | #613 |
| 1910 | — | — | 18 | #715 |
| 1909 | — | — | 20 | #596 |
| 1908 | — | — | 17 | #636 |
| 1907 | — | — | 24 | #477 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #867 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,278 |
| 1904 | — | — | 11 | #734 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #665 |
| 1902 | — | — | 12 | #660 |
| 1901 | — | — | 11 | #646 |
| 1900 | — | — | 9 | #920 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #730 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #868 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #802 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #785 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,004 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #962 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #872 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #973 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #740 |
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).