Delmar

Where Delmar comes from

Contraction of Delamare and de la Mare, from places in Normandy named La Mare (“the pond”). In the US, also borrowed from Catalan del Mar (“of the sea”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Delmar
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1926
    Delmar Watson born
    photographer, actor
  3. 1931
    Peak, #294
    354 babies named Delmar — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #468.
  5. 2002
    Delmar Glaze born
    American football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Delmar Watson · photographer, actor, 1926–2008
  • Delmar Glaze · American football player, born 2002

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.