Delmar vs Delores

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Delmar Delores

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 144 years in which either name was published, Delores for 109 years and Delmar for 35 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

• 1880–1889 Delmar ahead
• 1890–1894 Delores ahead
• 1895–1898 Delmar ahead
• 1902–2006 Delores ahead, apart from one short spell
• 2007–2024 Delmar ahead, apart from 2 short spells

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Deloreses alive today are over 75; half the Delmars are over 64. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Delmar Nebraska (6.1×), South Dakota (5.9×), Iowa (5.1×)
• Delores North Dakota (4.9×), South Dakota (4.4×), the District of Columbia (3.0×)

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

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