Delane
Delane was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,878 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Delane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 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 Delane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,492, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1957, the peak
Delane peaked in 1957, when 49 babies were given it (26 girls, #2,178 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,492 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,859 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,708 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,904 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #10,273 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,285 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #7,821 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,005 | 11 | #5,739 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,350 | 8 | #7,006 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,217 | 5 | #9,603 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 7 | #10,856 | 9 | #6,102 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,811 | 12 | #4,858 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,736 | 5 | #9,137 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,165 | 11 | #5,076 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,826 | 12 | #4,625 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 12 | #4,542 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,480 | 8 | #5,956 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,515 | 5 | #7,543 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,840 | 9 | #4,551 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,098 | 8 | #4,797 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,555 | 9 | #4,278 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,306 | 8 | #4,601 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,019 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,644 | 7 | #5,057 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,577 | 5 | #6,469 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,309 | 7 | #4,965 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,811 | 13 | #3,103 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,032 | 12 | #3,241 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,760 | 11 | #3,317 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,632 | 7 | #4,423 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,515 | 9 | #3,629 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,953 | 11 | #3,059 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,189 | 14 | #2,562 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,679 | 19 | #2,142 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,289 | 11 | #2,932 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,656 | 10 | #2,907 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,809 | 14 | #2,221 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,890 | 11 | #2,505 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,415 | 20 | #1,731 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,438 | 14 | #2,201 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,258 | 17 | #1,988 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,799 | 22 | #1,708 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,678 | 20 | #1,816 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,082 | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,755 | 22 | #1,733 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,242 | 21 | #1,765 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,465 | 15 | #2,112 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,178 | 23 | #1,684 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,112 | 13 | #2,296 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,349 | 12 | #2,327 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,954 | 19 | #1,775 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,033 | 19 | #1,777 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,279 | 16 | #1,958 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,072 | 14 | #2,072 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,066 | 11 | #2,346 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,926 | 23 | #1,549 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,429 | 16 | #1,892 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,473 | 17 | #1,866 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,504 | 11 | #2,305 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,360 | 14 | #1,870 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,804 | 11 | #2,223 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,898 | 15 | #1,932 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,134 | 7 | #2,995 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,429 | 15 | #1,833 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,453 | 10 | #2,362 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,963 | 12 | #2,090 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,536 | 20 | #1,530 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,205 | 19 | #1,591 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,166 | 13 | #1,981 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,351 | 18 | #1,672 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,972 | 20 | #1,567 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,927 | 19 | #1,604 |
| 1932 | under 5 | 6 | #3,459 | |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,032 | 6 | #3,473 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,704 | 7 | #3,362 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,231 | 8 | #3,136 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,942 | 7 | #3,531 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,999 | 7 | #3,461 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,142 | 5 | #4,355 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,599 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,979 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,747 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Delane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,878 Americans recorded as Delane, 51% are girls and 49% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Delane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delane, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 69% of the 1,878 Americans ever recorded as Delane. The median Delane alive today is 62 years old; half are between 47 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 1,444 people named Delane (819 women and girls, 625 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 102 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 550 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 351 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 211 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 75 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13 |
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 66,817 babies since 1880, Delane is the eighth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,747 babies recorded by SSA was a Delane (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Delane
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 Delane and names like it
- Compare Delane and DelaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDelane peaked in 1957.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delane since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Delane.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Delane alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.