Delma

Where Delma comes from

The dictionaries list Delma as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Adelma — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #793 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Peak, #448
    64 babies named Delma — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1913
    Delma Byron born
    American dancer
  4. 1945
    Delma S. Arrigoitia born
    Puerto Rican historian
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,349.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Adelma.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Fidelma.
Namesakes
  • Delma Byron · American dancer, 1913–2006
  • Delma S. Arrigoitia · Puerto Rican historian, 1945–2023
  • Delma Zita · Mozambican basketball player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.