# Delois (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/delois/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,622 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 122 / 8,500 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | 6,439 |
| 1982 | 10 | 6,474 |
| 1983 | 16 | 4,521 |
| 1984 | 9 | 6,954 |
| 1985 | 11 | 6,134 |
| 1986 | 10 | 6,721 |
| 1987 | 9 | 7,524 |
| 1988 | 7 | 9,521 |
| 1989 | 10 | 7,589 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,884 |
| 1992 | 9 | 8,930 |
| 1993 | 8 | 9,806 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,182 |
| 1995 | 5 | 14,003 |
| 1999 | 7 | 11,690 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 9 | 3,033 |
| 1923 | 8 | 3,233 |
| 1924 | 5 | 4,496 |
| 1928 | 6 | 3,811 |
| 1929 | 6 | 3,647 |
| 1931 | 6 | 3,479 |
| 1932 | 6 | 3,466 |
| 1933 | 7 | 3,075 |
| 1935 | 9 | 2,578 |
| 1936 | 7 | 2,943 |
| 1938 | 7 | 2,930 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,608 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,567 |
| 1942 | 7 | 2,997 |
| 1945 | 6 | 3,074 |

## 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.