In 2025, 42 US girls were named Delphine, making it the 3,592nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 65 places from #3,657 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 42 girls named Delphine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #427, reached in 1930. The most girls given the name in a single year was 348, in 1958. For comparison, it was #2,895 in 2015 and #870 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delphine in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 5 babies with the name. In all, 10,481 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,087 babies named Delphine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 442 US girls were named Delphine; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Delfina (4,037 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delphin and Delphene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Del, Delf and Delphi.