Delia
About Delia
Delia is a somewhat neglected southern charmer that stands on its own but also might be short for Adelia or Cordelia.
Delia's name is based on that of the Greek island of Delos, which in Greek myth was the home of Apollo and Artemis and was an epithet of the moon goddess Artemis, and later taken up by the seventeenth century pastoral poets.
In Britain it has been associated with the cookbook writer and broadcaster Delia Smith; in the U.S. with novelist/screenwriter Delia Ephron, who often collaborated with her sister Nora. There have been characters named Delia on Everwood and Ghost Whisperer.
Pronounced DEE-lee-ah.
As of October 2026, Delia ranked #1561 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #126 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #505.
Editor's take: The name Delia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "born on the island of Delos".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,151 | 216 | 120.9 |
| 2015 | #1,240 | 197 | 110.4 |
| 2016 | #1,307 | 183 | 103.3 |
| 2017 | #1,355 | 171 | 99 |
| 2018 | #1,398 | 160 | 94.1 |
| 2019 | #1,454 | 152 | 90.6 |
| 2020 | #1,343 | 164 | 101.5 |
| 2021 | #1,461 | 147 | 89.6 |
| 2022 | #1,624 | 130 | 79.3 |
| 2023 | #1,443 | 154 | 96 |
| 2024 | #1,522 | 141 | 87 |
| 2025 | #1,561 | 135 | 84 |
World rankings
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Delia on lists
Famous Delias
- Delia Ephron
American writer
- Delia Ann Derbyshire
English musician
- Delia Salter Bacon
American writer
- Delia Matache
Romanian singer
- Delia Parodi
first Argentine woman to hold a government post
- Delia "Chikita" Gonzalez
American boxer
- Cordelia Caroline "Delia" Sherman
American fantasy novelist
- Delia Boccardo
Italian actress
Delia in pop culture
- "Delia's Gone
" folk song
- Delia Ketchum
mother in the Pokemon series
- Delia "Dilly" Dedalus
younger sister of Stephen Dedalus, mentioned in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
- Delia Brown
character on "Everwood"
- Delia Banks
character on "Ghost Whisperer"
- Delia Ralston
character from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella "The Old Maid"
- Delia Delfano
main character on TV's "I Didn't Do It"
- Delia
character in Sarah Dessen's "The Truth About Forever"
- Delia Busby
character in Call the Midwife
- Delia Deetz
step,mother of Lydia Deetz in "Beetlejuice"
- Cordelia "Delia" Katherine Valentine Abbott
daughter of Chloe Mitchell & Billy Abbott on "The Young and the Restless"
- Delia
Barbie 12 dancing princesses