Delani
#1,467 for girls in 2025, 146 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 96.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 166 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,068since 1978
Delani over time
Rank among girls' names. Delani has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,467 | 146 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #1,369 | 166 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #1,391 | 161 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,670 | 126 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #2,103 | 90 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #2,285 | 79 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,320 | 79 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,902 | 58 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,303 | 49 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #3,624 | 43 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,088 | 55 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,054 | 56 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,930 | 61 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,670 | 63 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,589 | 64 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,313 | 38 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,357 | 33 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Delani! It came in at #9,750, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Delani
- 98 spots since 2024 (#1,369 → #1,467)
- 949 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #1,467)
- 1,922 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #1,467)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2024 at #1,369 (166 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,760 girls born in 2024 were named Delani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,009 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 36.8% of all girls named Delani (761) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,750 (1978) | #9,750 |
| 1980s | 8 | #8,761 (1989) | #8,761 |
| 1990s | 196 | #3,313 (1999) | #6,862 |
| 2000s | 541 | #2,589 (2004) | #2,969 |
| 2010s | 557 | #2,285 (2019) | #3,077 |
| 2020s | 761 | #1,369 (2024) | #1,736 |
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.
Delani in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 13,017 of them was named Delani, which outranked 90.6% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,659Sheila127
- #1,659Shyla127
- #1,659Sunnie127
- #1,670Delani126
- #1,670Breanna126
- #1,670Lincoln126
- #1,670Marlow126
- #1,677Gema125
- #1,677Jordynn125
- #1,677Joslyn125
Tied with 6 names at #1,670; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 174,601 of them was named Delani, which outranked 45.8% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,262Zye11
- #7,262Zymier11
- #7,262Zyrie11
- #7,768Delani10
- #7,768Aamari10
- #7,768Aavion10
- #7,768Abdou10
- #8,300Aabir9
- #8,300Aadhi9
- #8,300Aarian9
Tied with 531 names at #7,768; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.