Delaney
#242 for girls in 2025, 1,283 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 97.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 2,002 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 45,437since 1939
Delaney over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Delaney has never cracked the top 100 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #242 | 1,283 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #216 | 1,435 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #235 | 1,287 | #5,255 | 18 |
| 2022 | #244 | 1,255 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #269 | 1,164 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #313 | 1,024 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #286 | 1,158 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #249 | 1,315 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #251 | 1,266 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #263 | 1,207 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #243 | 1,328 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #268 | 1,232 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #249 | 1,280 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #257 | 1,260 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #237 | 1,337 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #209 | 1,486 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #241 | 1,388 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #210 | 1,622 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #203 | 1,689 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #193 | 1,815 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #190 | 1,828 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #169 | 2,002 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #175 | 1,856 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #181 | 1,765 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #204 | 1,583 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #206 | 1,538 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #214 | 1,459 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #221 | 1,400 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #258 | 1,120 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #265 | 1,080 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | #328 | 820 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #515 | 484 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #570 | 418 | #3,819 | 16 |
| 1992 | #704 | 306 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #878 | 226 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #1,008 | 180 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #1,471 | 99 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #3,340 | 24 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #3,340 | 25 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #3,236 | 25 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #3,259 | 21 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | #1,928 | 22 |
| 1972 | #3,894 | 15 | #1,966 | 21 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | #2,203 | 18 |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
| 1967 | — | #2,139 | 14 | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #2,848 | 9 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,822 | 9 | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | #2,435 | 11 |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,386 | 10 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | #3,480 | 5 |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #2,184 | 11 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
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| 1930 | — | #2,293 | 12 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
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First appearance
1939
The first year at least five girls were named Delaney! It came in at #4,250, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 26 spots since 2024 (#216 → #242)
- 71 spots since 2020 (#313 → #242)
- 1 spot since 2015 (#243 → #242)
- Biggest jump: 187 spots in 1995 (#515 → #328)
- Biggest drop: 37 spots in 2019 (#249 → #286)
Rise & fade · girls
65 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 2004 at #169 (2,002 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 35 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1991–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 917
- Highest: 1 in 917 girls born in 2004 were named Delaney (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,253 girls born in 2025 (0.08%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 37.6% of all girls named Delaney (17,086) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,250 (1939) | #4,250 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,740 (1955) | #5,346 |
| 1960s | 30 | #4,866 (1966) | #6,225 |
| 1970s | 159 | #3,236 (1979) | #3,815 |
| 1980s | 335 | #1,471 (1989) | #3,250 |
| 1990s | 7,493 | #214 (1999) | #496 |
| 2000s | 17,086 | #169 (2004) | #197 |
| 2010s | 12,869 | #209 (2010) | #251 |
| 2020s | 7,448 | #216 (2024) | #253 |
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.
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