Girls' name · since 1888
Dela
560 babies named Dela in U.S. Social Security records since 1888, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #11,041 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,124 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 560
- born since 1888
- 2020s
- peak decade
Dela currently ranks #6124 among girls' names in America, with 560 babies recorded since 1888.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dela has been recorded 560 times among girls since 1888, currently ranked #6124 nationally and more common than 65% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1888 to 2025.
- #11,041 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #6,124 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 560 born since 1888
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dela ranks #11,041 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,124 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 560 born since 1888, peaking in the 2020s.
- #11,041 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,124 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 560
- born since 1888
- 2020s
- peak decade
Dela's 560 recorded births place it above 84.72% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Dela compares
560 Top 43% higher than 57% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Dela's all-time total is 49% above the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Dela | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 560 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 19 | 21 | 19,840 |
Dela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Dela splits its recorded history at 1963: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1888 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 19 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Dela popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1888–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 138 years of records
Dela popularity over time - boys
5 total births recorded since 1989 (Dela as boys' name)
Dela by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (81 births, 14% of the file).
2020s was Dela's strongest decade.
81 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 14% of all-time use.
Dela births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1880s 5
1880s
5 births
- 1900s 12
1900s
12 births
- 1910s
1910s
49 births
- 1920s
1920s
70 births
- 1930s 31
1930s
31 births
- 1940s 27
1940s
27 births
- 1950s
1950s
65 births
- 1960s
1960s
56 births
- 1970s
1970s
43 births
- 1980s 16
1980s
16 births
- 1990s
1990s
35 births
- 2000s 23
2000s
23 births
- 2010s
2010s
47 births
- 2020s
2020s
81 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 81 births (14% of all-time use).
How Dela compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Dela's total volume
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Two nationwide peer axes for Dela: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~137 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1888–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dela draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.