Delano

Where Delano comes from

Delano hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,915 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Peak, #302
    316 babies named Delano — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #531.
  4. 1993
    Delano Williams born
    Sprint athlete from the Turks and Caicos Islands
  5. 1998
    Delano Burgzorg born
    Dutch-Surinamese footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Delano Williams · Sprint athlete from the Turks and Caicos Islands, born 1993
  • Delano Burgzorg · Dutch-Surinamese footballer, born 1998
  • Delano Ladan · association football player, born 2000
  • Delano Hill · Dutch footballer, born 1975
  • Delano Lewis · American attorney, businessman and diplomat, 1938–2023

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.