Dela
Dela was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,175 among girls’ names; 565 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dela?
#6,175 among girls’ names, 2025
Dela rose from #17,121 in 2015 to #6,175 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 11.8 per million.
19 babies in 2025, the peak
Dela peaked in 2025, when 19 girls were given it, #6,175 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 10 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,175 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,719 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,009 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,200 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,741 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,304 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,715 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,289 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,911 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,905 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,121 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,054 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,456 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,725 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,232 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,089 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,657 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,598 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,860 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,480 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,067 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,988 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,040 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,880 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,065 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,385 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,800 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,056 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,952 | 7.5 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,876 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,941 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,097 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,759 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,361 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,394 | 4.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,110 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,434 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,246 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,364 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,556 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,288 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,967 | 5.0 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,772 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,186 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,874 | 4.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,856 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,794 | 3.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,140 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,714 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,085 | 7.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,386 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,245 | 7.2 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,349 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,337 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,468 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,753 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,497 | 6.9 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,639 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,648 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,734 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,069 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,097 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,115 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,154 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,547 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,962 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,931 | 9.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,282 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,902 | 9.6 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,016 | 16.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,757 | 20.6 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,645 | 22.9 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,332 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dela has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 73 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dela, and how old are they?
An estimated 370 Americans named Dela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 7 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 619 people named Dela (534 women and girls, 85 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dela rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Dela?
Dela is a less common spelling of Della: SSA has recorded 565 Dela and 70,949 Della since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 115,145 babies since 1880, Dela is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 769 babies (2.5%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Dela and names like it
- Compare Dela and DellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Dela.
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