Meaning not yet researched.
Delani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 146 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,371 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,371 in 2024; #1,469 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Delani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,469 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,371.
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Delani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 146 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,371 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 166 (2024).
In 2025, 146 US girls were named Delani, making it the 1,469th most common girls’ name of the year, down 98 places from #1,371 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 166 girls named Delani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,371, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 166. For comparison, it was #3,400 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delani in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 5 babies. In all, 2,140 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 813 babies named Delani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,038 US girls were named Delani; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 166. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,009 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Delani ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #454 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), Delanie (5,176 babies since 1880) and Delany (1,408 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Delani 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #454 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #622 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #821 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #928 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,088 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,132 | #1,523 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,173 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,281 | #3,403 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,314 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,320 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,462 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,325 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,469 | 7 | #9,939 |
| 2024 | 166 | #1,371 | 8 | #9,201 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,395 | 11 | #7,388 |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,671 | 10 | #7,899 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,105 | 9 | #8,330 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,423 | 7 | #9,812 |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,914 | 5 | #12,654 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,315 | 5 | #12,739 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,805 | 5 | #11,294 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,334 | 5 | #10,285 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,673 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,014 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,636 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,700 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,705 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,765 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,953 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,126 | — | — |
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).