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
- 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
Rank among girls' names. Delaney has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 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 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 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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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.
See more about Delaney
- 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)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 2004 at #169 (2,002 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1991–2025
- Highest: 1 in 917 girls born in 2004 were named Delaney (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,253 girls born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 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.
Delaney in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 1,262 of them was named Delaney, which outranked 98.7% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 68,263 of them was named Delaney, which outranked 74.8% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,782Trevonte29
- #2,782Yechiel29
- #2,782Zach29
- #2,851Delaney28
- #2,851Abiel28
- #2,851Alexsander28
- #2,851Alon28
- #2,926Abdullahi27
- #2,926Abimael27
- #2,926Abrahan27
Tied with 74 names at #2,851; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.