Delante
Delante was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,973 among boys’ names; 730 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delante by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delante?
#10,973 among boys’ names, 2025
Delante fell from #8,932 in 2015 to #10,973 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 3.5 per million.
44 babies in 1992, the peak
Delante peaked in 1992, when 44 boys were given it, #1,853 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,973 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,252 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,925 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,088 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,212 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,040 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,932 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,962 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,898 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,077 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | #5,248 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,112 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,380 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,111 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,333 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,183 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,470 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,274 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,349 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,169 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,750 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,241 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,020 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,310 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,370 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,603 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,778 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,397 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,298 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,853 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,951 | 19.3 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,445 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,160 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,315 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,862 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,298 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,962 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,505 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,456 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,145 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,260 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,221 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,155 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,207 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,702 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,541 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,039 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,754 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,504 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Delante a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delante has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delante: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delante, and how old are they?
An estimated 703 Americans named Delante and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 523 people named Delante (5 women and girls, 518 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 694 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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.
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 Delante born?
The states with the most babies named Delante are District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; District of Columbia and Maryland and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 115 | not ranked | 34.1× |
| Maryland | 60 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Virginia | 17 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Delante is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delante is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1973 it was given 34.1 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 Delante 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,776 babies since 1880, Delante is the second most given (26% of them).
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 Delante
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 Delante and names like it
- Compare Delante and DelonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDelante peaked in 1992.
- District of Columbia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delante since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Delante.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Delante alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.