Delano
Delano was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,161 among boys’ names; 5,602 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Delano and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 23 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delano by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delano?
#4,161 among boys’ names, 2025
Delano fell from #2,532 in 2015 to #4,161 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 14.6 per million.
329 babies in 1933, the peak
Delano peaked in 1933, when 329 babies were given it (316 boys, #302 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,161 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,625 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,588 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,352 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,196 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,939 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,649 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,618 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,644 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,794 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,532 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,632 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,203 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,335 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,444 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,521 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,412 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,298 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,344 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,481 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,267 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,425 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,008 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,020 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,819 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 80 | #1,501 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 66 | #1,623 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 59 | #1,723 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,100 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,599 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 67 | #1,453 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 55 | #1,643 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 62 | #1,492 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,358 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,188 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 51 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 44 | #1,508 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 44 | #1,429 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 50 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 40 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 67 | #989 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,181 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,130 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,045 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 58 | #1,011 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,058 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,107 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,018 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,114 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,027 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,102 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 50 | #1,083 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,044 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,073 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,070 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,210 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,169 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,421 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,378 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,316 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,382 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,589 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,788 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,273 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,187 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,298 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,083 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 49 | #953 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 115 | #559 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,091 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 48 | #972 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 62 | #822 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 81 | #679 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 57 | #830 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 54 | #832 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 73 | #715 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 135 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 150 | #460 | 0.14 |
| 1935 | 118 | #532 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 209 | #378 | 0.20 |
| 1933 | 316 | #302 | 0.32 |
| 1932 | 81 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,166 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,031 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,119 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,991 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delano a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,602 Americans recorded as Delano, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 25 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Delano: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delano, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 69% of the 5,602 Americans ever recorded as Delano. The median Delano alive today is 38 years old; half are between 23 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 3,621 people named Delano (78 women and girls, 3,543 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,034 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 310 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 516 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 763 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 906 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 871 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 494 |
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 Delano born?
The states with the most babies named Delano are Michigan, California and Illinois, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 438 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 294 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 188 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 162 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 100 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 100 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| West Virginia | 64 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 62 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 60 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Delano is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delano is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1914 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Delano 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,983 babies since 1880, Delano is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 babies (100%), again the most given.
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.
More about Delano and names like it
- Compare Delano and DelnoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDelano peaked in 1933.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delano since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Delano.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Delano alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.