Delano
Last seen for girls in 1980 at #10,392 · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1933 · 316 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,531since 1914
Delano over time
Rank among boys' names. Delano has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,139 | 25 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,605 | 31 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,575 | 51 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,344 | 35 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,180 | 37 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,925 | 40 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,636 | 30 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,637 | 47 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,783 | 43 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,528 | 49 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,622 | 46 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,326 | 55 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,437 | 51 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,511 | 49 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,401 | 53 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,291 | 57 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,337 | 55 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,477 | 49 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,265 | 52 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,419 | 46 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,019 | 54 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,816 | 61 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,504 | 80 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,624 | 66 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,719 | 59 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,096 | 42 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,599 | 61 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,456 | 67 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,643 | 55 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,493 | 62 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,359 | 69 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,170 | 89 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,259 | 77 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,362 | 65 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,189 | 72 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,612 | 43 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,385 | 51 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,504 | 44 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,320 | 50 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,429 | 44 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,320 | 50 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,246 | 54 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #1,103 | 67 |
| 1979 | — | #1,241 | 55 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,474 | 40 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,221 | 52 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,238 | 49 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,084 | 60 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,082 | 58 | |
| 1973 | — | #987 | 67 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,177 | 48 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,127 | 53 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,043 | 61 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,008 | 58 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,057 | 49 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,102 | 45 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,016 | 51 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,106 | 45 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,025 | 54 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,100 | 48 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,082 | 50 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,042 | 56 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,072 | 52 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,068 | 52 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,204 | 41 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,165 | 44 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,418 | 30 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,370 | 31 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,311 | 33 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,378 | 30 | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #1,582 | 23 |
| 1951 | — | #1,774 | 18 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,272 | 32 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,185 | 36 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,296 | 31 | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | #1,081 | 45 |
| 1946 | — | #952 | 49 | |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 | #558 | 115 |
| 1944 | — | #1,085 | 37 | |
| 1943 | — | #969 | 48 | |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | #821 | 62 |
| 1941 | — | #678 | 81 | |
| 1940 | — | #830 | 57 | |
| 1939 | — | #829 | 54 | |
| 1938 | — | #715 | 73 | |
| 1937 | — | #493 | 135 | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | #459 | 150 |
| 1935 | — | #531 | 118 | |
| 1934 | #2,741 | 10 | #378 | 209 |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 | #302 | 316 |
| 1932 | #2,644 | 11 | #677 | 81 |
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Delano! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Delano is popular in 1940
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#177 · 1 in 1,117
- California#543 · 1 in 10,541
Best ever in a state: #111 in Minnesota, 1933.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Dakota | #177 | 5 | 1 in 1,117 |
| California | #543 | 5 | 1 in 10,541 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Delano
- 534 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #4,139)
- 1,214 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #4,139)
- 1,611 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #4,139)
- Biggest jump: 2,418 spots in 1932 (#3,095 → #677)
- Biggest drop: 394 spots in 1946 (#558 → #952)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1933 at #302 (316 births)
- Births halved by 1935, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1932–1943
- Highest: 1 in 3,138 boys born in 1933 were named Delano (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 68,323 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.8% of all boys named Delano (1,151) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #2,915 (1914) | #3,448 |
| 1920s | 19 | #2,986 (1921) | #3,778 |
| 1930s | 1,151 | #302 (1933) | #1,050 |
| 1940s | 561 | #558 (1945) | #946 |
| 1950s | 334 | #1,068 (1959) | #1,354 |
| 1960s | 508 | #1,008 (1969) | #1,061 |
| 1970s | 543 | #987 (1973) | #1,167 |
| 1980s | 540 | #1,103 (1980) | #1,347 |
| 1990s | 647 | #1,170 (1991) | #1,542 |
| 2000s | 564 | #1,504 (2000) | #2,154 |
| 2010s | 434 | #2,326 (2012) | #2,828 |
| 2020s | 219 | #2,575 (2023) | #3,295 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Delano in 1940
Top boys' names in 1940
More about 1940
boys
1,159,172 boys got a published name in 1940; 1 in 20,336 of them was named Delano, which outranked 78.9% of the 3,937 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).