Meaning not yet researched.
Delicia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,149 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,149 in 1971; #13,635 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delicia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,635 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #1,149.
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Delicia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,149 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 101 (1971).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Delicia, making it the 13,635th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,149, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 101. For comparison, it was #6,797 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delicia in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 7 babies. In all, 2,559 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 753 babies named Delicia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 64 US girls were named Delicia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elicia (4,295 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delecia, Delisia and Delesia 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delecia (336), Delisia (115), Delesia (83), Delasia (59), Delysia (6), Delycia (6), Delissia (5).
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 Delicia 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 | 6 | #13,635 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,842 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,480 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,915 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,328 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,406 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,279 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,797 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,598 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,136 | — | — |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,172 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,836 | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,136 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,681 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,714 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,113 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,569 | — | — |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1978 | 74 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1975 | 84 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1974 | 81 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1973 | 82 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1970 | 71 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,318 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,482 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,168 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,036 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,278 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,087 | — | — |
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).