Delani
Delani was given to 146 girls in 2025, #1,469 among girls’ names; 2,140 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Delani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delani?
#1,469 among girls’ names, 2025
Delani rose from #3,400 in 2015 to #1,469 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.3 to 90.8 per million.
174 babies in 2024, the peak
Delani peaked in 2024, when 174 babies were given it (166 girls, #1,371 among girls’ names). The 153 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,469 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 166 | #1,371 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,395 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,671 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,105 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,423 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,293 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,788 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,327 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,914 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,400 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,501 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,330 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,380 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,314 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,638 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,099 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,064 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,936 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,421 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,675 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,594 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,802 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,788 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,103 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,285 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,331 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,670 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,920 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,081 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,369 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,008 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,630 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,759 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,124 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,140 Americans recorded as Delani, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 146 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Delani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delani, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,140 Americans ever recorded as Delani. The median Delani alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,355 people named Delani (1,263 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 104 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 786 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
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 Delani born?
The states with the most babies named Delani are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,281 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,132 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 10 | #928 | 1.0× |
| California | 8 | #2,325 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #622 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,319 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,314 | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 6 | #454 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,462 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,173 | 0.3× |
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 Delani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Delani?
Delani is a less common spelling of Delaney: SSA has recorded 2,140 Delani and 46,650 Delaney since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,656 babies since 1880, Delani is the sixth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 153 of their 1,638 babies (9.3%), the second 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 Delani
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 Delani and names like it
- Compare Delani and DelaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDelani peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delani since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Delani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Delani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.