Recorded 1883–2025 · United States
Delmer was most popular in 1924, when 205 American babies were given the name — ranking #899 that year. In 2025 it ranked #24,763, with 5 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 7,670 people named Delmer.
Delmer first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1883, which makes it about 142 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 127 of the 143 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 7,670 American births named Delmer between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,153 are estimated to be alive today.
5 American babies were named Delmer in 2025, ranking #24,763 that year.
Delmer is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 8 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Delmer is a boy’s name — 0.2% of the 7,670 Americans given it were girls and 99.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 2,153 Americans named Delmer are alive today — 28% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 57 and 81.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org