Meaning and history
An American short form of the Germanic Adelbert, from adal "noble" and berht "bright," sometimes explained as a blend of "Dale" and "Albert." It was widely used in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before falling out of fashion after the 1970s.
20062006: 29 births, rank #3,524
2007: 38 births, rank #3,025
2008: 24 births, rank #4,145
2009: 22 births, rank #4,429
2010: 23 births, rank #4,241
20112011: 16 births, rank #5,433
2012: 18 births, rank #5,035
2013: 20 births, rank #4,621
2014: 20 births, rank #4,702
2015: 22 births, rank #4,407
20162016: 22 births, rank #4,470
2017: 21 births, rank #4,594
2018: 18 births, rank #5,106
2019: 19 births, rank #4,951
2020: 26 births, rank #3,918
20212021: 16 births, rank #5,562
2022: 15 births, rank #5,874
2023: 17 births, rank #5,470
2024: 14 births, rank #6,199
20252025: 12 births, rank #6,803
Delbert moved from #841 to #868 for boys between 1985 and 1986. Its highest annual birth count came in 1932, with 1,038 births.