Meaning not yet researched.
Delaine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,166 in 1936.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,166 in 1936; #15,491 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delaine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,491 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1936, at #1,166.
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Delaine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,166 in 1936 · most girls in one year: 65 (1954).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Delaine, making it the 15,491st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,580 places from #13,911 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 girls named Delaine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,166, reached in 1936. The most girls given the name in a single year was 65, in 1954. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,234 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delaine in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 2,619 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 9.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 574 babies named Delaine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 30 US girls were named Delaine; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Delene, Delayne and Dellene 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delene (838), Delayne (686), Dellene (92), Delynne (35), Delanne (5).
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 Delaine in the open dataset we use.
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 | 5 | #15,491 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,911 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,920 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,714 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,630 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,229 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,224 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,858 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,304 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,463 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,732 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,100 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,983 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,576 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,008 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,889 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,662 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,052 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,399 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,279 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,350 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,477 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,572 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,318 | 6 | #8,187 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,244 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,406 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,220 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,788 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,736 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,035 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,103 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,258 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,921 | 5 | #7,216 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,719 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,100 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,996 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,784 | 5 | #6,470 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,694 | 6 | #5,510 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,051 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,939 | 6 | #5,288 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,081 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,369 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,610 | 5 | #5,078 |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,987 | 9 | #3,340 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,639 | 7 | #3,314 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,808 | 6 | #3,701 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,408 | 6 | #3,733 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,659 | 13 | #2,346 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,480 | 7 | #3,350 |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1954 | 65 | #1,232 | 6 | #3,534 |
| 1953 | 60 | #1,251 | 5 | #3,939 |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,339 | 7 | #3,165 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,437 | 9 | #2,711 |
| 1950 | 56 | #1,234 | 5 | #3,806 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1948 | 50 | #1,300 | 6 | #3,395 |
| 1947 | 54 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,537 | 5 | #3,642 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,439 | 6 | #3,186 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,828 | 7 | #2,932 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,813 | 6 | #3,192 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,818 | 7 | #2,929 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,504 | 5 | #3,646 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,166 | 5 | #3,658 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,677 | 6 | #3,340 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,489 | 16 | #1,794 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,374 | 13 | #2,018 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,428 | 8 | #2,899 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,758 | 14 | #2,021 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,027 | 7 | #3,304 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,915 | 8 | #3,137 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,916 | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,177 | 5 | #4,379 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,379 | — | — |
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).