Delmer
Delmer is a boy's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 427th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 2,100 Delmers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Delmer boys named Delmer
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,670
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 427th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 16 / 7,654
How old the living Delmers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,670 babies given the name since 1883, about 2,100 are alive — 27 in every hundred. Roughly 90 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 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.
Notable Delmers
- Delmer Daves (1904–1977)American film director, producer, and screenwriter
People named Delmer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Delmer is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Delmer is most concentrated in West Virginia (9.4×), Kentucky (8.2×), North Dakota (6.2×), Oklahoma (6.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Delmer peaked:
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Delmer against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.