Meaning not yet researched.
Del: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #644 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #644 in 1958; #8,417 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Del in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,417 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #644.
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Del: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #644 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 143 (1958).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Del, making it the 8,417th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,491 places from #6,926 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 12 boys named Del in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #644, reached in 1958. That year also had the most boys given the name: 143. For comparison, it was #9,796 in 2015 and #801 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Del in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,936, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 31. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,141 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Del in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 4,970 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,311 babies named Del.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 107 US boys were named Del; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Delmer (7,670 babies since 1880), Dell (6,552 babies since 1880) and Delano (5,602 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delford are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delford (548).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Del in the open dataset we use.
Del is listed as a nickname for Adelbert, Delbert, Delphine.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,417 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #6,926 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,287 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,471 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,773 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #7,772 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,028 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,091 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #6,820 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #9,796 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,172 |
| 2013 | — | — | 15 | #5,728 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #11,130 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #12,738 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,721 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,461 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #7,827 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,347 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,187 |
| 2005 | — | — | 15 | #5,358 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #11,771 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,379 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,175 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,053 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,652 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,198 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,221 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,292 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,056 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,218 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,136 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,536 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,157 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,562 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,882 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,925 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #2,992 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,288 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,808 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,183 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #1,991 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,815 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,015 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,360 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,461 |
| 1979 | — | — | 37 | #1,576 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,731 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,018 |
| 1976 | — | — | 33 | #1,619 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,436 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,295 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,735 | 30 | #1,593 |
| 1972 | — | — | 50 | #1,155 |
| 1971 | — | — | 61 | #1,044 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,501 | 80 | #899 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,559 | 77 | #875 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,483 | 81 | #822 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,086 | 72 | #843 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,012 | 76 | #836 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,589 | 105 | #726 |
| 1964 | — | — | 100 | #764 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,095 | 122 | #703 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,062 | 109 | #735 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,376 | 90 | #804 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,016 | 135 | #673 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,662 | 140 | #651 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,274 | 143 | #644 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,291 | 130 | #666 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,936 | 112 | #700 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,487 | 113 | #691 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,392 | 122 | #656 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,249 | 90 | #750 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,146 | 90 | #742 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,503 | 83 | #768 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,141 | 72 | #801 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,434 | 63 | #869 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,188 | 83 | #739 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,095 | 87 | #738 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,739 | 64 | #820 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,257 | 41 | #999 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,803 | 37 | #1,090 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,299 | 49 | #961 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,699 | 50 | #935 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,877 | 37 | #1,071 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,602 | 45 | #954 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,226 | 42 | #981 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,136 | 43 | #968 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,221 | 41 | #990 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,296 | 41 | #976 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,611 | 29 | #1,253 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,784 | 32 | #1,177 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,188 | 34 | #1,127 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,264 | 22 | #1,519 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,033 | 27 | #1,339 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,117 | 22 | #1,572 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,969 | 25 | #1,453 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,498 | 19 | #1,775 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,943 | 20 | #1,754 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,426 | 19 | #1,807 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,549 | 16 | #2,028 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,459 | 17 | #1,977 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,963 | 18 | #1,888 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,822 | 9 | #3,068 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,407 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,812 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,378 | 15 | #2,080 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,405 | 13 | #2,284 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,784 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,070 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,442 | 28 | #1,243 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,314 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #1,980 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,920 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,583 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,647 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,506 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).