Delos

Where Delos comes from

Delos hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1890
    Peak, #667
    9 babies named Delos — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1894
    Delos W. Lovelace born
    American novelist and biographer
  5. 1916
    Delos Thurber born
    American high jumper
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Delos Thurber · American high jumper, 1916–1987
  • Delos W. Lovelace · American novelist and biographer, 1894–1967
  • Delos R. Ashley · American politician, 1828–1873
  • Delos Bennett Sackett · United States Army general, 1822–1885
  • Delos Carleton Emmons · United States Army general, 1889–1965

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.