Meaning not yet researched.
Delany: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,123 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,123 in 2024; #2,866 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delany in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,866 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,123.
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Delany: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,123 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 90 (2024).
In 2025, 59 US girls were named Delany, making it the 2,866th most common girls’ name of the year, down 743 places from #2,123 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 90 girls named Delany in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,123, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #3,145 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delany in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 12 babies. In all, 1,408 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 463 babies named Delany.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 568 US girls were named Delany; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Delany ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,089 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), Delani (2,140 babies since 1880) and Delainey (2,092 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 Delany 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #1,089 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,598 | #1,955 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,942 | #1,733 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,945 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,023 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,126 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,692 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,077 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,191 | — | — |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,918 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,064 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,730 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,929 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,773 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,985 | — | — |
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).