Delila

Where Delila comes from

Delila 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #633
    13 babies named Delila — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1908
    Delila Richards Abbott born
    American politician
  5. 1980
    Delila Hatuel born
    Israeli fencer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Delila Hatuel · Israeli fencer, born 1980
  • Delila Richards Abbott · American politician, 1908–1998

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.