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Delano vs Delbert

American parents have registered 47,056 Delberts since 1880, against 5,602 Delanos. But in 2025 it was Delano that was commoner, 25 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Delano against Delbert, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Delano Delbert

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Delbert for 113 years and Delano for 33 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Delano Delbert
Total US births 5,60247,056
Most in one year 3291,038
Babies in 2025 2512
Estimated living today 3,90016,000
Median age today 3767
Peak year 19331932
Best rank 302nd boys151st boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th6,803rd
First recorded 19141880
Girls / boys 71 / 5,531126 / 46,930

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Delberts alive today are over 67; half the Delanos are over 37. That is 30 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Delano and Delbert.