Delbert

Where Delbert comes from

The dictionaries list Delbert as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #249 among boys — 44 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1920
    Delbert Mann born
    American television and film director
  3. 1920
    Peak, #150
    982 babies named Delbert — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1940
    Delbert McClinton born
    American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist
  5. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #353.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Delbert Mann · American television and film director, 1920–2007
  • Delbert McClinton · American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist, born 1940
  • Delbert Lamb · American speed skater, 1914–2010
  • Delbert Hosemann · 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, born 1947
  • Delbert Alvarado · Honduran player of Canadian football and American football player, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.