Delany
#2,859 for girls in 2025, 59 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 90 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,408since 1990
Delany over time
Rank among girls' names. Delany has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,859 | 59 |
| 2024 | #2,118 | 90 |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,463 | 73 |
| 2021 | #3,215 | 50 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 |
| 2010 | #3,075 | 54 |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 |
| 2008 | #3,222 | 52 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 |
| 2002 | #3,196 | 44 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Delany! It came in at #6,867, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1993, when fewer than 14 girls a year got the name.
Where Delany is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,080 · 1 in 6,283
- New York#1,657 · 1 in 11,230
- California#1,788 · 1 in 13,805
Best ever in a state: #959 in Arizona, 2016.
Show every state
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| Texas | #1,080 | 26 | 1 in 6,283 |
| New York | #1,657 | 7 | 1 in 11,230 |
| California | #1,788 | 12 | 1 in 13,805 |
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See more about Delany
- 741 spots since 2024 (#2,118 → #2,859)
- 687 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #2,859)
- 270 spots since 2015 (#3,129 → #2,859)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2024 at #2,118 (90 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,002 girls born in 2024 were named Delany (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,242 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.9% of all girls named Delany (463) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 175 | #3,492 (1995) | #5,957 |
| 2000s | 391 | #3,196 (2002) | #3,777 |
| 2010s | 463 | #2,934 (2016) | #3,452 |
| 2020s | 379 | #2,118 (2024) | #2,813 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Delany in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 18,002 of them was named Delany, which outranked 88.1% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,099Primrose91
- #2,099Raizel91
- #2,099Shanaya91
- #2,118Delany90
- #2,118Analise90
- #2,118Avila90
- #2,118Aziyah90
- #2,134Aaradhya89
- #2,134Arabelle89
- #2,134Bayleigh89
Tied with 15 names at #2,118; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.