Delana
Delana was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,007 among girls’ names; 4,089 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,660 Americans named Delana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 25 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delana?
#9,007 among girls’ names, 2025
Delana fell from #5,704 in 2015 to #9,007 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 6.8 per million.
98 babies in 1969, the peak
Delana peaked in 1969, when 98 girls were given it, #1,118 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,007 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,459 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,520 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,822 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,605 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,706 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,229 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,041 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,878 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,669 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,704 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,058 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,175 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,523 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,461 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,903 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,424 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,490 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,332 | 42.7 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,642 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,530 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,371 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,009 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,752 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,602 | 32.2 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,868 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,747 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,657 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,667 | 27.0 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,517 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,845 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,667 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,775 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,396 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,665 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,811 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,819 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,746 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,069 | 30.5 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,151 | 28.6 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,321 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,774 | 36.2 |
| 1983 | 51 | #1,995 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,857 | 34.3 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,938 | 33.0 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,553 | 45.2 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,858 | 35.5 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,785 | 37.2 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,567 | 45.0 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,685 | 39.6 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,608 | 41.8 |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,388 | 50.4 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,549 | 41.1 |
| 1972 | 72 | #1,384 | 47.3 |
| 1971 | 83 | #1,306 | 49.9 |
| 1970 | 92 | #1,215 | 52.6 |
| 1969 | 98 | #1,118 | 58.1 |
| 1968 | 83 | #1,191 | 50.6 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,302 | 42.4 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,406 | 36.0 |
| 1965 | 79 | #1,210 | 44.8 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,284 | 39.6 |
| 1963 | 87 | #1,170 | 45.1 |
| 1962 | 74 | #1,288 | 37.6 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,438 | 29.7 |
| 1960 | 64 | #1,377 | 31.7 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,468 | 26.7 |
| 1958 | 75 | #1,227 | 37.3 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,642 | 21.0 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,583 | 22.4 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,986 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,682 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,032 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,900 | 15.1 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,615 | 19.4 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,963 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,083 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,268 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,006 | 13.5 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,041 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,492 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,803 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,466 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,031 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,203 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,218 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,860 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,246 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,522 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,165 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,350 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,600 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,188 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,555 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,413 | 5.0 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,549 | 4.9 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,115 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,205 | 8.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,692 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,539 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,963 | 6.0 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,584 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,881 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,746 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delana, and how old are they?
3,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 4,089 Americans ever recorded as Delana. The median Delana alive today is 45 years old; half are between 25 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 3,397 people named Delana (3,359 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,674 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 54 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 679 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 746 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 854 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 258 |
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).
Where are babies named Delana born?
The states with the most babies named Delana are Texas, California and Kentucky, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 289 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 163 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 88 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 75 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 54 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Delana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,656 babies since 1880, Delana is the third most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,638 babies (<1%), 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Delana
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 Delana and names like it
- Compare Delana and DelaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDelana peaked in 1969.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delana since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Delana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Delana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.