Meaning not yet researched.
Delphia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #466 in 1893.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #466 in 1893; #9,611 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delphia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,611 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1893, at #466.
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Delphia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #466 in 1893 · most girls in one year: 116 (1924).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Delphia, making it the 9,611th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6,271 places from #15,882 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 5 girls named Delphia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #466, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 116, in 1924. For comparison, it was #14,976 in 2015 and #1,965 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delphia in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 4,251 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 938 babies named Delphia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 31 US girls were named Delphia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Delphie and Delphi 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delphie (37), Delphi (23).
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 Delphia in the open dataset we use.
Delphia is listed as a nickname for Adelphia, Philadelphia, Philly.
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 | 10 | #9,611 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,882 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,061 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,094 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,976 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,234 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,355 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,999 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,885 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,932 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,075 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,810 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,312 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,024 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,388 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,367 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,805 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,599 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,478 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,230 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,871 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,025 | — | — |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,736 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1952 | 53 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1941 | 54 | #994 | — | — |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1938 | 53 | #977 | — | — |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1935 | 54 | #948 | — | — |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1933 | 61 | #859 | — | — |
| 1932 | 65 | #863 | — | — |
| 1931 | 69 | #822 | — | — |
| 1930 | 69 | #862 | — | — |
| 1929 | 76 | #810 | — | — |
| 1928 | 83 | #787 | — | — |
| 1927 | 96 | #731 | — | — |
| 1926 | 81 | #807 | — | — |
| 1925 | 80 | #833 | — | — |
| 1924 | 116 | #689 | — | — |
| 1923 | 96 | #747 | — | — |
| 1922 | 104 | #714 | — | — |
| 1921 | 113 | #696 | — | — |
| 1920 | 93 | #752 | — | — |
| 1919 | 105 | #683 | — | — |
| 1918 | 85 | #780 | — | — |
| 1917 | 112 | #642 | — | — |
| 1916 | 95 | #708 | — | — |
| 1915 | 95 | #678 | — | — |
| 1914 | 78 | #657 | — | — |
| 1913 | 70 | #619 | — | — |
| 1912 | 74 | #560 | — | — |
| 1911 | 58 | #558 | — | — |
| 1910 | 50 | #588 | — | — |
| 1909 | 45 | #574 | — | — |
| 1908 | 44 | #564 | — | — |
| 1907 | 45 | #537 | — | — |
| 1906 | 44 | #521 | — | — |
| 1905 | 30 | #644 | — | — |
| 1904 | 31 | #615 | — | — |
| 1903 | 42 | #493 | — | — |
| 1902 | 40 | #504 | — | — |
| 1901 | 40 | #476 | — | — |
| 1900 | 36 | #581 | — | — |
| 1899 | 30 | #552 | — | — |
| 1898 | 37 | #511 | — | — |
| 1897 | 33 | #511 | — | — |
| 1896 | 30 | #556 | — | — |
| 1895 | 25 | #610 | — | — |
| 1894 | 27 | #559 | — | — |
| 1893 | 33 | #466 | — | — |
| 1892 | 26 | #541 | — | — |
| 1891 | 20 | #593 | — | — |
| 1890 | 22 | #563 | — | — |
| 1889 | 25 | #499 | — | — |
| 1888 | 21 | #553 | — | — |
| 1887 | 13 | #639 | — | — |
| 1886 | 14 | #610 | — | — |
| 1885 | 16 | #546 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #695 | — | — |
| 1883 | 12 | #565 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #761 | — | — |
| 1880 | 7 | #689 | — | — |
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).