Delicia
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1971 · 101 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,559since 1946
Delicia over time
Rank among girls' names. Delicia has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 |
| 1999 | #2,782 | 49 |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 |
| 1994 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 |
| 1992 | #2,513 | 50 |
| 1991 | #2,593 | 47 |
| 1990 | #1,796 | 80 |
| 1989 | #2,169 | 56 |
| 1988 | #2,071 | 56 |
| 1987 | #2,044 | 54 |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 |
| 1985 | #2,283 | 44 |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 |
| 1981 | #1,935 | 55 |
| 1980 | #1,720 | 65 |
| 1979 | #1,857 | 57 |
| 1978 | #1,511 | 74 |
| 1977 | #1,483 | 74 |
| 1976 | #1,638 | 60 |
| 1975 | #1,309 | 84 |
| 1974 | #1,315 | 81 |
| 1973 | #1,266 | 82 |
| 1972 | #1,414 | 69 |
| 1971 | #1,148 | 101 |
| 1970 | #1,444 | 71 |
| 1969 | #1,499 | 62 |
| 1968 | #2,874 | 20 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | #2,543 | 23 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | #2,862 | 17 |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Delicia! It came in at #3,994, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Delicia is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#552 · 1 in 4,747
- Texas#926 · 1 in 8,547
Best ever in a state: #426 in Louisiana, 1974.
Show every state
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| Tennessee | #552 | 6 | 1 in 4,747 |
| Texas | #926 | 13 | 1 in 8,547 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Delicia
- 2,958 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #13,208)
- 6,487 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1971 at #1,148 (101 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,473 girls born in 1971 were named Delicia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.4% of all girls named Delicia (753) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 15 | #3,994 (1946) | #4,001 |
| 1950s | 50 | #2,862 (1958) | #5,217 |
| 1960s | 222 | #1,499 (1969) | #2,944 |
| 1970s | 753 | #1,148 (1971) | #1,439 |
| 1980s | 516 | #1,720 (1980) | #2,088 |
| 1990s | 464 | #1,796 (1990) | #2,783 |
| 2000s | 354 | #3,020 (2000) | #4,210 |
| 2010s | 165 | #4,807 (2011) | #7,622 |
| 2020s | 20 | #10,250 (2020) | #12,903 |
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.
Delicia in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 28,163 of them was named Delicia, which outranked 84.5% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,832Tegan58
- #1,832Tenika58
- #1,832Tomi58
- #1,857Delicia57
- #1,857Chavonne57
- #1,857Delana57
- #1,857Dustin57
- #1,874Alfreda56
- #1,874Arianna56
- #1,874Beronica56
Tied with 16 names at #1,857; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.