Delaney — #216 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Delaney

The Social Security Administration has registered 44,153 babies named Delaney between 1939 and 2024, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Delaney currently holds the #216 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 2,002 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Delaney performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 17,086 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Delaney shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,091 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Delaney in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Delaney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 44,153 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.