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Delbert vs Delvecchio

American parents have registered 47,056 Delberts since 1880, against 81 Delvecchios. Delbert is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Delbert against Delvecchio, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Delbert Delvecchio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Delbert has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Delbert had 171 and Delvecchio had 44.

Side by side

  Delbert Delvecchio
Total US births 47,05681
Most in one year 1,03844
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 16,00080
Median age today 6748
Peak year 19321977
Best rank 151st boys1,367th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rdunranked
First recorded 18801976
Girls / boys 126 / 46,9300 / 81

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Delberts alive today are over 67; half the Delvecchios are over 48. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Delbert and Delvecchio.