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Delois

Recorded 1912–1999 · United States

Delois was most popular in 1948, when 321 American babies were given the name — ranking #816 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 8,622 people named Delois.

Most popular in1948
Rank that year#816
Births that year321
Total since 18808,622
Given to99% girls
Alive today~5,000
Median age74

Delois over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Delois’s peak in 1948. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Delois?

Delois first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 83 of the 114 years since. It was last recorded in 1999.

How many people are named Delois?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 8,622 American births named Delois 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 5,020 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Delois in 2025?

Delois was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Delois a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Delois is a girl’s name — 98.6% of the 8,622 Americans given it were girls and 1.4% were 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.

How old is someone named Delois?

Roughly 5,020 Americans named Delois are alive today — 58% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 74 years old, and half are between 67 and 80.

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.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org