Meaning not yet researched.
Delaney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,283 in 2025. Its best rank was #169 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #169 in 2004; #242 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Delaney in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#242 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #169.
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Delaney: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,283 girls in 2025. Peak: #169 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 2,002 (2004).
In 2025, 1,283 US girls were named Delaney, making it the 242nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #216 in 2024. That is 152 fewer than the 1,435 girls named Delaney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #169, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,002. For comparison, it was #243 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delaney in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 46,650 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 17,278 babies named Delaney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,394 US girls were named Delaney; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,435. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,253 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Delaney ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #91 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Delanie (5,176 babies since 1880), Delani (2,140 babies since 1880), Delainey (2,092 babies since 1880) and Delany (1,408 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delanee, Delania and Delaynee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Delanee (404), Delania (238), Delaynee (218), Delainy (158), Delainee (155), Deilany (138), Delanny (73), Dilany (35), Dylaney (21), Dellaney (16), Delanei (12), Delayney (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 Delaney 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 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 11 | #91 | #167 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #102 | #193 |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #116 | #107 |
| Delaware | 7 | #127 | #68 |
| Maryland | 34 | #138 | #172 |
| Wisconsin | 37 | #143 | #223 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #155 | #114 |
| Massachusetts | 34 | #165 | #166 |
| Ohio | 66 | #165 | #173 |
| Virginia | 45 | #183 | #204 |
| Oregon | 20 | #183 | #327 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #185 | #127 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #187 | #139 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #193 | — |
| New Jersey | 43 | #196 | #188 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #197 | #236 |
| Illinois | 49 | #204 | #217 |
| Missouri | 30 | #205 | #249 |
| Indiana | 33 | #212 | #184 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #220 | #440 |
| New York | 78 | #221 | #410 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #222 | — |
| Idaho | 10 | #224 | #186 |
| Kansas | 14 | #224 | #196 |
| North Carolina | 48 | #225 | #298 |
| Iowa | 15 | #232 | #163 |
| Tennessee | 33 | #239 | #300 |
| Alabama | 19 | #249 | #395 |
| Michigan | 36 | #255 | #151 |
| Washington | 27 | #266 | #277 |
| Nevada | 10 | #271 | — |
| Kentucky | 15 | #289 | #155 |
| Florida | 62 | #300 | #336 |
| Colorado | 20 | #306 | #154 |
| Arizona | 23 | #309 | #274 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #309 | #522 |
| Minnesota | 18 | #311 | #137 |
| Utah | 14 | #314 | #407 |
| Georgia | 33 | #327 | #362 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #351 | #458 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #381 | #254 |
| California | 86 | #384 | #364 |
| Texas | 85 | #391 | #382 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #420 | #302 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,283 | #242 | 12 | #6,900 |
| 2024 | 1,435 | #216 | 8 | #9,200 |
| 2023 | 1,287 | #235 | 18 | #5,300 |
| 2022 | 1,255 | #244 | 5 | #12,791 |
| 2021 | 1,164 | #269 | 13 | #6,417 |
| 2020 | 1,024 | #313 | 17 | #5,300 |
| 2019 | 1,158 | #286 | 9 | #8,365 |
| 2018 | 1,315 | #249 | 15 | #5,834 |
| 2017 | 1,266 | #251 | 11 | #7,215 |
| 2016 | 1,207 | #263 | 9 | #8,302 |
| 2015 | 1,328 | #243 | 5 | #12,520 |
| 2014 | 1,232 | #268 | 8 | #8,967 |
| 2013 | 1,280 | #249 | 12 | #6,714 |
| 2012 | 1,260 | #257 | 16 | #5,533 |
| 2011 | 1,337 | #237 | 17 | #5,251 |
| 2010 | 1,486 | #209 | 18 | #5,091 |
| 2009 | 1,388 | #241 | 19 | #4,968 |
| 2008 | 1,622 | #210 | 16 | #5,549 |
| 2007 | 1,689 | #203 | 15 | #5,711 |
| 2006 | 1,815 | #193 | 17 | #5,132 |
| 2005 | 1,828 | #190 | 14 | #5,644 |
| 2004 | 2,002 | #169 | 28 | #3,383 |
| 2003 | 1,856 | #175 | 19 | #4,319 |
| 2002 | 1,765 | #181 | 17 | #4,549 |
| 2001 | 1,583 | #204 | 20 | #4,006 |
| 2000 | 1,538 | #206 | 27 | #3,168 |
| 1999 | 1,459 | #214 | 32 | #2,680 |
| 1998 | 1,400 | #221 | 28 | #2,874 |
| 1997 | 1,120 | #258 | 28 | #2,770 |
| 1996 | 1,080 | #265 | 25 | #2,945 |
| 1995 | 820 | #328 | 18 | #3,586 |
| 1994 | 484 | #516 | 29 | #2,569 |
| 1993 | 418 | #570 | 16 | #3,864 |
| 1992 | 306 | #704 | 27 | #2,611 |
| 1991 | 226 | #878 | 16 | #3,686 |
| 1990 | 180 | #1,009 | 18 | #3,340 |
| 1989 | 99 | #1,473 | 17 | #3,350 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,454 | 9 | #4,877 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,271 | 15 | #3,232 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,217 | 12 | #3,695 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,180 | 13 | #3,449 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,635 | 16 | #2,848 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,356 | 7 | #5,048 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,441 | 9 | #4,312 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,362 | 10 | #3,913 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,308 | 17 | #2,750 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,260 | 21 | #2,327 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,658 | 18 | #2,502 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,792 | 16 | #2,684 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,203 | 14 | #2,855 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,299 | 10 | #3,493 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,456 | 12 | #2,990 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,196 | 22 | #1,941 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,936 | 21 | #1,986 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,879 | 18 | #2,224 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,534 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,729 | 8 | #3,380 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,762 | — | — |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,168 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,967 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,507 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,705 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,110 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,790 | 9 | #2,891 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,780 | 9 | #2,942 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,920 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,694 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,087 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,870 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,164 | 6 | #3,623 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,841 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,224 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,965 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,277 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,425 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,807 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,080 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,486 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,855 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,253 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,657 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,416 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,563 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,389 | 5 | #3,604 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,252 |
| 1936 | — | — | 11 | #2,209 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,369 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,351 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,462 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,330 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,533 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,229 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,928 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,051 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,089 |
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).