Meaning not yet researched.
Delila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #638 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #638 in 1887; #3,412 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Delila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,412 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #638.
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Delila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 girls in 2025. Peak: #638 in 1887 · most girls in one year: 118 (2008).
In 2025, 45 US girls were named Delila, making it the 3,412th most common girls’ name of the year, up 58 places from #3,470 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 45 girls named Delila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #638, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 118, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,689 in 2015 and #2,690 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Delila in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 3,574 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 639 babies named Delila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 463 US girls were named Delila; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Delilah (66,683 babies since 1880), Dalila (6,042 babies since 1880) and Delylah (1,656 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delayla and Dilyla 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: Delayla (323), Dilyla (6).
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 Delila 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 | 45 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,234 | — | — |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,040 | — | — |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,520 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,576 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 2015 | 66 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 2008 | 118 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 2007 | 85 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,679 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,630 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,381 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,154 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,723 | — | — |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,475 | — | — |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,280 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,039 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,187 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,360 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,309 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,407 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,082 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,682 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,787 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,857 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,197 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,831 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,715 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #994 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1895 | 12 | #944 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1892 | 10 | #973 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1890 | 17 | #644 | — | — |
| 1887 | 13 | #638 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #915 | — | — |
| 1885 | 11 | #664 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #763 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #836 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #693 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #853 | — | — |
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).