Della
Della is ranked 580th among girls in 2024 (518 births). Its best rank was 60th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- #580up 65 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5180.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19171,192 births
- Best rank
- #60in 1881
- Since 1880
- 70,274people given the name
The story in the numbers
70,274 girls have been named Della in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 1,192 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 24 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Della | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5,048 | |
| 1890s | 6,410 | |
| 1900s | 5,958 | |
| 1910s | 9,450 | |
| 1920s | 10,366 | |
| 1930s | 7,950 | |
| 1940s | 6,358 | |
| 1950s | 6,038 | |
| 1960s | 4,583 | |
| 1970s | 1,804 | |
| 1980s | 814 | |
| 1990s | 512 | |
| 2000s | 719 | |
| 2010s | 2,155 | |
| 2020s | 2,109 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Della was the 168th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Della
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorapeak 1921
- Ettapeak 1920
- Vinniepeak 1916
- Linniepeak 1921
- Addiepeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
- Salliepeak 1916
- Idapeak 1918
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.