Delmer

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈdɛɫmɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Delmer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 127K(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 27K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 68K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,613 people, 2020

Sources
211 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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.

Where Delmer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,6131 in 127K2.6KDelmer211
ID Indonesia≈1,300 est.≈1 in 207K—Delmer4
PE Peru≈1,200 est.≈1 in 27K—Delmer18
PH Philippines≈840 est.≈1 in 130K—Delmer19
IT Italy≈590 est.≈1 in 107K—Delmer3
CA Canada≈420 est.≈1 in 90K—Delmer61
SG Singapore≈91 est.≈1 in 68K—Delmer3
DK Denmark≈50 est.≈1 in 118K12——

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Delmer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Honduras, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Délmêr, Delmér

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

18801900192019401960Del Young, b. 1885Delmer Clair Cooper, b. 1896Delmer Daves, b. 1904Delmer Brown, b. 1909Del Young, b. 1912Del Harris, b. 1937Del Beshore, b. 1956Richard Delmer Boyer, b. 1958
  • 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)

InformalHi Delmer,

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)

Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Delmer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.6K#6,198
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1924205—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1923204—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1921194—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1929192—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1925190—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1920189—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1919188—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1926186—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1934185—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1928185—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1935182—

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 in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How do you pronounce Delmer?
A machine transcription gives /ˈdɛɫmɝ/ (IPA) for English.
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.

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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 2026-10-10.

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