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Delroy

Delroy is a boy's name that peaked in 1992, when it was the 2,214th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 970 Delroys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Delroy

By the numbers

Total US births
1,417
Estimated living today
970
Median age today
42
Peak year
1992
Best rank
2,214th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1916

How old the living Delroys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,417 babies given the name since 1916, about 970 are alive — 68 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 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.

Notable Delroys

People named Delroy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Delroy is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Delroy is most concentrated in Minnesota (13.3×), New York (6.0×), Maryland (4.4×), Florida (3.8×).

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

Names of 1992

The most popular boys’ names the year Delroy peaked:

All the names of 1992

Delroy elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Delroy 24 2,304th
France boys Delroy 10 5,373rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

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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.