Dalilah
#1,173 for girls in 2025, 197 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 253 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,135since 1970
Dalilah over time
Rank among girls' names. Dalilah has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,173 | 197 |
| 2024 | #1,050 | 238 |
| 2023 | #1,120 | 219 |
| 2022 | #1,157 | 210 |
| 2021 | #1,162 | 210 |
| 2020 | #1,093 | 223 |
| 2019 | #1,233 | 190 |
| 2018 | #1,186 | 202 |
| 2017 | #1,308 | 179 |
| 2016 | #1,094 | 235 |
| 2015 | #1,175 | 214 |
| 2014 | #1,068 | 240 |
| 2013 | #988 | 253 |
| 2012 | #999 | 253 |
| 2011 | #1,090 | 225 |
| 2010 | #1,035 | 241 |
| 2009 | #1,019 | 257 |
| 2008 | #1,005 | 263 |
| 2007 | #1,340 | 181 |
| 2006 | #1,809 | 113 |
| 2005 | #1,741 | 113 |
| 2004 | #1,989 | 93 |
| 2003 | #2,144 | 81 |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 |
| 2001 | #2,487 | 62 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 |
| 1999 | #3,569 | 34 |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
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| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dalilah! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Dalilah
- 123 spots since 2024 (#1,050 → #1,173)
- 80 spots since 2020 (#1,093 → #1,173)
- 2 spots since 2015 (#1,175 → #1,173)
- Biggest jump: 91 spots in 2012 (#1,090 → #999)
- Biggest drop: 80 spots in 2014 (#988 → #1,068)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2013 at #988 (253 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2012–2013
- Highest: 1 in 6,808 girls born in 2024 were named Dalilah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,159 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #988 in 2013, was only 1 in 6,936 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.5% of all girls named Dalilah (2,232) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 43 | #5,580 (1973) | #7,863 |
| 1980s | 85 | #5,457 (1983) | #7,108 |
| 1990s | 191 | #3,301 (1998) | #6,335 |
| 2000s | 1,287 | #1,005 (2008) | #1,854 |
| 2010s | 2,232 | #988 (2013) | #1,118 |
| 2020s | 1,297 | #1,050 (2024) | #1,126 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dalilah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 7,148 of them was named Dalilah, which outranked 95.0% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).