Delaine
Delaine was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,487 among girls’ names; 2,619 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Delaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 47 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delaine?
#15,487 among girls’ names, 2025
Delaine entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,487 in 2025.
71 babies in 1954, the peak
Delaine peaked in 1954, when 71 babies were given it (65 girls, #1,231 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,487 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,906 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,915 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,709 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,625 | 4.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,223 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,219 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,851 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,300 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,457 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #12,726 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,096 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,977 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,574 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,003 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,883 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,657 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,046 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,392 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,272 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,344 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,470 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,567 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,313 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,239 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,400 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,214 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,782 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,730 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,029 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,097 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,253 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,916 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,716 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,097 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,895 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,939 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,994 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,037 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,783 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,693 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,050 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,938 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,407 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,661 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,080 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,368 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,536 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,610 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,987 | 24.0 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,005 | 23.1 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,754 | 27.4 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,666 | 28.5 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,652 | 27.2 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,639 | 26.6 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,807 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,408 | 32.7 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,676 | 23.4 |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,420 | 30.7 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,658 | 22.8 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,479 | 26.2 |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,382 | 29.3 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,593 | 22.5 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,582 | 22.4 |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,346 | 28.6 |
| 1954 | 65 | #1,231 | 33.5 |
| 1953 | 60 | #1,250 | 31.9 |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,338 | 28.0 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,436 | 23.9 |
| 1950 | 56 | #1,233 | 32.7 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,424 | 24.5 |
| 1948 | 50 | #1,299 | 29.4 |
| 1947 | 54 | #1,228 | 30.5 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,536 | 21.0 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,522 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,438 | 24.1 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,846 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,369 | 25.9 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,828 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,297 | 28.9 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,813 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,818 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,504 | 23.5 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,166 | 35.6 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,677 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,489 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,374 | 27.8 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,428 | 26.2 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,757 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,955 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,026 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,914 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,832 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,915 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,515 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,458 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,176 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,098 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,467 | 7.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,377 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,619 Americans recorded as Delaine, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Delaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delaine, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 2,619 Americans ever recorded as Delaine. The median Delaine alive today is 63 years old; half are between 47 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 2,100 people named Delaine (1,898 women and girls, 202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,002 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 155 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 807 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 449 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 214 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 165 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 40 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,575 babies since 1880, Delaine is the fourth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,789 babies (<1%), the seventh 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Delaine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Delaine and names like it
- Compare Delaine and DelaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDelaine peaked in 1954.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delaine since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Delaine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delaine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.