# Delmar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/delmar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Catalan |
| Meaning | “the pond”, “of the sea” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,376 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14,242 / 134 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

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”).

## What it means

Delmar is grouped under sea.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 7 | 4,062 |
| 1921 | 6 | 4,597 |
| 1923 | 7 | 4,074 |
| 1924 | 9 | 3,461 |
| 1926 | 8 | 3,642 |
| 1927 | 7 | 3,947 |
| 1928 | 5 | 4,875 |
| 1932 | 5 | 4,559 |
| 1933 | 6 | 3,848 |
| 1937 | 5 | 4,399 |
| 1939 | 7 | 3,514 |
| 1946 | 5 | 5,116 |
| 1953 | 5 | 5,864 |
| 1955 | 5 | 6,039 |
| 1957 | 7 | 5,019 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 4,133 |
| 2012 | 19 | 4,901 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,430 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,167 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5,801 |
| 2016 | 27 | 3,905 |
| 2017 | 18 | 5,149 |
| 2018 | 23 | 4,395 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,839 |
| 2020 | 23 | 4,309 |
| 2021 | 22 | 4,524 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,221 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,916 |
| 2024 | 21 | 4,741 |
| 2025 | 15 | 5,920 |

## People named Delmar

- Daz Dillinger, American rapper and producer
- Dale Hawkins, American rock singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist (1936-2010)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.