Delia
Delia reached its high-water mark in 1957 at number 423, and has been recorded 37,380 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,561st. About 22,000 Delias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Delia boys named Delia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 37,380
- Estimated living today
- 22,000
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 423rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,561st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 37,318 / 62
How old the living Delias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 37,380 babies given the name since 1880, about 22,000 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 6,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From Ancient Greek Δηλίᾱ, epithet of the goddess Artemis, referring to her birth on the island of Delos.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Delias
- Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001)English musician and composer of electronic music
- Delia Owens (born 1949)American author and zoologist
- Delia Grigore (born 1972)Romanian Romani writer, philologist, academic and Romani rights activist
- Delia Boccardo (born 1948)Italian actress
- Delia Fiallo (1924–2021)Cuban author and screenwriter
- Delia Bacon (1811–1859)American author best known for her work on Shakespearean authorship
- Delia Scala (1929–2004)Italian actress, dancer and singer
- Delia Akeley (1869–1970)American explorer
People named Delia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Delia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Delia is most concentrated in Texas (4.0×), New Mexico (3.6×), Arizona (3.1×), California (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Delia peaked:
Delia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Delia | 4,025 | — |
| France girls | Delia +1 spelling | 2,935 | 636th |
| Switzerland girls | Delia +1 spelling | 1,186 | 104th |
| England and Wales girls | Delia | 622 | 703rd |
| Belgium girls | Delia +1 spelling | 455 | 487th |
| Ireland girls | Delia | 221 | 250th |
| Poland girls | Delia | 16 birth registrations | 507th |
| Scotland girls | Delia | 7 | 652nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Delia | 3 | 446th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Delia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Delia | 958 | 0.077% | 81st |
| German girls | Switzerland | Délia | 8 | 0.001% | 1,077th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Delia | 128 | 0.029% | 200th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Délia | 52 | 0.012% | 315th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Delia | 40 | 0.061% | 80th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Delia is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.10% of children were given it – 56 of them.
Delia: rank by region
In 2024, Delia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Délia | 341 | 8 |
In 2021, Delia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Delia | 8 | 1 |
In 2020, Delia was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Delia | 229 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Delia appears in the lists for Province of Liège (167th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Delia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 13 | 507th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Delia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Delia | 32 | 59 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Delia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 7,211 women called Delia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lugo | Delia | 156 | 0.930 | 179 |
| Ourense | Delia | 139 | 0.876 | 187 |
| Pontevedra | Delia | 417 | 0.850 | 188 |
| León | Delia | 145 | 0.631 | 248 |
| Rioja, La | Delia | 98 | 0.592 | 233 |
| Segovia | Delia | 44 | 0.558 | 243 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Delia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.