Delia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Delia is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,221 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,220 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 25,621 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Delia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Delia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Delia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Delia have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Delia even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record of rank #123 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Delia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Delia has never been ranked higher than #123. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,482 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 129 girls named Delia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Delia were born, there have been 198 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Delia is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Delia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Delia, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Delia
Delia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
L
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
L
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Delia sounds like this:
