Delaney
Delaney is ranked 216th among girls in 2024 (1,432 births). Its best rank was 169th, in 2004.
- Rank in 2024
- #216up 17 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,4320.09% of girls
- Peak year
- 20042,002 births
- Best rank
- #169in 2004
- Since 1939
- 45,354people given the name
The story in the numbers
44,153 girls have been named Delaney in the United States since 1939, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 2,002 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 268 → 216).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 39%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,201 boys have also been given it, 2.6% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Delaney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 17 | |
| 1960s | 30 | |
| 1970s | 159 | |
| 1980s | 336 | |
| 1990s | 7,493 | |
| 2000s | 17,086 | |
| 2010s | 12,867 | |
| 2020s | 6,160 |
In 2004, its biggest year
Delaney was the 169th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Delaney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Niamhpeak 2008
- Enyapeak 2002
- Mckennapeak 2002
- Zariapeak 2000
- Salmapeak 1999
- Kenedipeak 2007
- Selinpeak 2006
- Maiahpeak 1998
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.