Meaning not yet researched.
Dell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #468 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #468 in 1880; #10,978 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,978 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #468.
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Dell: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #468 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 84 (1957).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Dell, making it the 10,978th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,080 places from #7,898 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 10 boys named Dell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #468, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 84, in 1957. For comparison, it was #11,004 in 2015 and #855 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Dell in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #493, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 57, in 1954. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,505 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dell in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 24 babies. In all, 6,552 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,161 babies named Dell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42 US boys were named Dell; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Del (4,970 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Delle, Dyle and Deuel are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Delle (97), Dyle (27), Deuel (13), Dial (10), Deal (5), Dill (5), Diell (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #10,978 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,898 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,654 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,198 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #9,813 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,047 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #11,004 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #8,969 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #11,063 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #9,054 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #9,926 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,114 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #12,990 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #12,482 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,645 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,689 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #9,872 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,814 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,054 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,099 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,389 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #5,929 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,766 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,099 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,502 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,781 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,260 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,053 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #2,982 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #4,903 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,519 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #2,977 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,202 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,106 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,808 | 17 | #2,726 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,106 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,513 | 16 | #2,874 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,216 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #2,991 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,585 | 11 | #3,624 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,803 | 19 | #2,394 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,972 | 15 | #2,816 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,531 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,345 | 28 | #1,757 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,440 | 15 | #2,578 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,825 | 20 | #2,062 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,753 | 38 | #1,367 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,881 | 34 | #1,471 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,621 | 57 | #1,083 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,788 | 44 | #1,188 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,653 | 42 | #1,170 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,892 | 67 | #876 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,466 | 63 | #920 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,122 | 52 | #1,022 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,763 | 59 | #984 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,891 | 63 | #949 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,174 | 63 | #958 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,845 | 65 | #953 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,816 | 81 | #838 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,600 | 77 | #871 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,681 | 74 | #877 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,553 | 84 | #825 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,489 | 77 | #854 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,428 | 70 | #888 |
| 1954 | 57 | #1,321 | 68 | #896 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,395 | 84 | #776 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,586 | 67 | #854 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,671 | 46 | #1,057 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,505 | 64 | #855 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,568 | 60 | #888 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,476 | 59 | #892 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,441 | 67 | #846 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,681 | 60 | #849 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,381 | 56 | #841 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,408 | 46 | #952 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,712 | 53 | #918 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,397 | 51 | #931 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,246 | 53 | #870 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,553 | 44 | #969 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,198 | 62 | #770 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,662 | 45 | #940 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,460 | 47 | #909 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,387 | 40 | #993 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,185 | 47 | #924 |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,152 | 45 | #944 |
| 1933 | 47 | #1,010 | 48 | #899 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,494 | 41 | #1,038 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,399 | 56 | #845 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,621 | 33 | #1,240 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,656 | 44 | #1,030 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,319 | 37 | #1,172 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,531 | 49 | #1,003 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,284 | 43 | #1,070 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,416 | 35 | #1,206 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,209 | 43 | #1,096 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,199 | 45 | #1,060 |
| 1922 | 47 | #1,117 | 43 | #1,077 |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,262 | 38 | #1,166 |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,195 | 30 | #1,334 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,250 | 43 | #1,037 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,131 | 58 | #873 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,220 | 40 | #1,039 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,065 | 43 | #975 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,057 | 35 | #1,090 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,065 | 22 | #1,276 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,028 | 28 | #934 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,062 | 19 | #1,067 |
| 1911 | 24 | #881 | 11 | #1,058 |
| 1910 | 30 | #782 | 13 | #881 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,166 | 7 | #1,181 |
| 1908 | 18 | #949 | 11 | #839 |
| 1907 | 22 | #799 | 7 | #1,123 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,111 | 8 | #946 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,327 | 5 | #1,277 |
| 1904 | 30 | #631 | 9 | #824 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,148 | 9 | #804 |
| 1902 | 23 | #717 | 13 | #618 |
| 1901 | 14 | #885 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #891 | 10 | #855 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,115 | 8 | #799 |
| 1898 | 14 | #929 | 12 | #642 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,189 | 9 | #738 |
| 1896 | 17 | #793 | 11 | #683 |
| 1895 | 18 | #749 | 8 | #810 |
| 1894 | 11 | #959 | 13 | #574 |
| 1893 | 14 | #802 | 8 | #784 |
| 1892 | 22 | #596 | 13 | #579 |
| 1891 | 13 | #758 | 7 | #787 |
| 1890 | 17 | #645 | 8 | #764 |
| 1889 | 13 | #729 | 7 | #816 |
| 1888 | 12 | #758 | 15 | #510 |
| 1887 | 10 | #742 | 5 | #961 |
| 1886 | 11 | #699 | 14 | #494 |
| 1885 | — | — | 14 | #505 |
| 1884 | 11 | #646 | 16 | #472 |
| 1883 | 13 | #547 | 11 | #566 |
| 1882 | 10 | #603 | 13 | #521 |
| 1881 | 12 | #493 | 13 | #488 |
| 1880 | 9 | #591 | 15 | #468 |
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).