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Delainey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 157 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,350 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,350 in 2024; #1,390 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delainey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,390 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,350.
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Delainey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 157 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,350 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 169 (2024).
In 2025, 157 US girls were named Delainey, making it the 1,390th most common girls’ name of the year, down 40 places from #1,350 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 169 girls named Delainey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,350, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 169. For comparison, it was #2,942 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delainey in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 7 babies. In all, 2,092 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 662 babies named Delainey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 819 US girls were named Delainey; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 169. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,237 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Delainey ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #612 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Delaney (46,650 babies since 1880) and Delany (1,408 babies since 1880).
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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 Delainey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 8 | #612 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #646 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #874 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #882 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #989 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,055 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,085 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,090 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,221 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,230 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,555 | #2,655 |
| New York | 8 | #1,561 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,241 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,217 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 2024 | 169 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,793 | — | — |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,518 | — | — |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,011 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,115 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,838 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,716 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,076 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,802 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,742 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,882 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,495 | — | — |
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).