Delmer
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/d̪elmeɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Delmer is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 27Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 68Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 90Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
2,613 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Delmer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,613 | 1 in 127K | 2.6K | Delmer | 211 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Delmer | 4 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Delmer | 18 |
| PH Philippines | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Delmer | 19 |
| IT Italy | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Delmer | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Delmer | 61 |
| SG Singapore | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Delmer | 3 |
| DK Denmark | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 12 | — | — |
2,613 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Delmer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Albanian, shepherd
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Del Youngb. 1885USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1885-1959)
- Delmer Clair Cooperb. 1896botanist
- Delmer Davesb. 1904USAmerican film director, producer, and screenwriter (1904–1977)
- Delmer Brownb. 1909USAmerican historian
- Del Youngb. 1912USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player
- Del Harrisb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball coach
- Del Beshoreb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player-coach
- Richard Delmer Boyerb. 1958USAmerican convicted of murder, on death row
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,198 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 205 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 204 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 194 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 192 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 190 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 189 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 188 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 186 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1934 | 185 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 185 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1935 | 182 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Delmer a male or female name?
- Delmer is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How do you pronounce Delmer?
- In Spanish /d̪elmeɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Delmer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Delmer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delmer.
- How common is the name Delmer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,613 people named Delmer in 2020, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Delmer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/delmerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Delmer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.