Delos

Where Delos comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Delos.

Delos through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1890
    Peak, #667
    9 babies named Delos, its best rank.
  3. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1894
    Delos W. Lovelace born
    American novelist and biographer
  5. 1916
    Delos Thurber born
    American high jumper
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Delos Thurber · American high jumper, 1916–1987
  • Delos W. Lovelace · American novelist and biographer, 1894–1967
  • Delos R. Ashley · American politician, 1828–1873
  • Delos Bennett Sackett · United States Army general, 1822–1885
  • Delos Carleton Emmons · United States Army general, 1889–1965

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.