first name
DELORIS
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 16,930 people named Deloris, 53.2% reported their origin as White, 41.9% as Black and 2.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Deloris peaked in 1947, when 990 babies got the name.
At least 34,781 babies have been given the name since 1899. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Deloris by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #367. The largest share of babies named Deloris, 44.9%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Deloris is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Deloris has been most common in West Virginia (5.5×), South Carolina (4.6×), and South Dakota (4×), and least common in New Jersey (0.05×).
31,776 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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