Delta
About Delta
Delta is an unusual vintage option, blending the sounds of Della and Etta. The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet and a geographical term, used to describe an island formed at the mouth of a river, some may be put off by Delta's links the airline company of COVID variant on the same name.
Borne by singer Delta Goodrem and actress Delta Burke, it was given to around 80 girls in a recent year.
Pronounced DEL-tuh.
As of October 2026, Delta ranked #2337 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #723 in 1893, Nameberry popularity #707.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,929 | 28 | 15.7 |
| 2015 | #3,863 | 39 | 21.8 |
| 2016 | #3,868 | 39 | 22 |
| 2017 | #2,608 | 67 | 38.8 |
| 2018 | #1,927 | 103 | 60.5 |
| 2019 | #1,571 | 136 | 81 |
| 2020 | #1,715 | 118 | 73 |
| 2021 | #1,885 | 105 | 64 |
| 2022 | #2,664 | 65 | 39.6 |
| 2023 | #1,893 | 105 | 65.4 |
| 2024 | #2,266 | 82 | 50.6 |
| 2025 | #2,337 | 78 | 48.5 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Delta.
- Moxie
- Jubilee
- Memphis
- Nico
- Jasper
- Bay
- Bindi
- November
- Rio
- January
- Mauve
- Bliss
- Honor
- Auburn
- Peppi
- Poet
- Espn
- Marvel
- September
- True
Delta on lists
Famous Deltas
- Delta Ramona Leah Burke
American actress
- Delta Lea Goodrem
Australian singer/songwriter
- Delta Work
stage name of American drag performer Gabriel Villarreal, contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3
- Delta Fay Hodges (b. 2012)
daughter of country music singer JT Hodges
- Delta Bell Shepard (b. 2014)
daughter of actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard
Delta in pop culture
- Delta James
character in comic strip "Luann"
- "Delta of Venus
" book by Anais Nin
- Delta AI
character in web series Red vs. Blue
- Delta Megazord
a zord on TV's Power Rangers in Space
- Delta
alien princess in classic "Doctor Who" episode "Delta and the Bannermen"
- Deltas
the working class of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- Delta Rae
folk rock band
- "Delta Dawn
" a song by Tanya Tucker
- Delta
a landform at the mouth of a river: Nile Delta, Egypt, & Mississippi
- Delta
Greek letter
- Delta
the symbol for "change" in physics
- Delta Air Lines
Major US airline, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia