← Back to Victorian and Belle Époque
Boy · English, possibly from Germanic
Delbert
Say it: DEL-bert
Meaning
Probably a short form of Adelbert (Germanic adal 'noble' + berht 'bright'), or a 19th-century American blend of Del- with names ending in -bert; the source is not certain.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Mostly an American name of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, peaking around the 1920s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1930s
In the United States
- 46,964 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1932, about 1 in 1,000 boys
- 24 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Delbert McClinton, American blues singer
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.