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Delois

About 8,622 American babies have been named Delois since 1912, most of them around 1948. It has not appeared in the national data since 1999. About 4,900 Deloises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Delois boys named Delois

By the numbers

Total US births
8,622
Estimated living today
4,900
Median age today
73
Peak year
1948
Best rank
445th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1912
Girls / boys
8,500 / 122

How old the living Deloises are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 8,622 babies given the name since 1912, about 4,900 are alive — 57 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 3,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Delois is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Delois is most concentrated in Arkansas (9.8×), Mississippi (8.7×), Alabama (7.1×), North Carolina (4.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1948

The most popular girls’ names the year Delois peaked:

All the names of 1948

Related names

Delois against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.