Meaning not yet researched.
Delana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,118 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,118 in 1969; #9,009 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,009 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #1,118.
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Delana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,118 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 98 (1969).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Delana, making it the 9,009th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,547 places from #6,462 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 18 girls named Delana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,118, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #5,706 in 2015 and #1,964 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delana in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 4,089 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 751 babies named Delana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 184 US girls were named Delana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Delena, Delaina and Delayna 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: Delena (2,173), Delaina (1,593), Delayna (874), Delona (272), Dylana (241), Delanna (217), Dilana (71), Delonna (56), Delinah (43), Dellena (21), Deleena (17), Deleana (11), and more.
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 Delana 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 | 11 | #9,009 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,462 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,525 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,825 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,610 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,710 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,233 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,045 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,882 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,706 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,060 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,177 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,462 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,904 | — | — |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,491 | — | — |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1983 | 51 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1972 | 72 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1971 | 83 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1970 | 92 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1969 | 98 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1968 | 83 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1965 | 79 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1963 | 87 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1962 | 74 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1960 | 64 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1958 | 75 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,557 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,415 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,550 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,116 | — | — |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,965 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,883 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,748 | — | — |
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).