Delena
Delena was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,630 among girls’ names; 2,173 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Delena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 33 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delena?
#13,630 among girls’ names, 2025
Delena fell from #12,125 in 2015 to #13,630 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
58 babies in 1967, the peak
Delena peaked in 1967, when 58 girls were given it, #1,465 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,630 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,722 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,861 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,203 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,742 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,525 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,271 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,243 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,913 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,909 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,125 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,460 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,757 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,592 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,850 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,024 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,261 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,825 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,679 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,005 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,380 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,117 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,949 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,135 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,264 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,901 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,421 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,068 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,624 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,001 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,145 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,009 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,783 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,768 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,906 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,345 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,200 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,508 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,294 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,170 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,635 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,454 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,848 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,162 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,144 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,490 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,215 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,467 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,113 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,466 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,183 | 25.2 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,838 | 31.5 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,066 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,978 | 25.8 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,089 | 22.3 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,064 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,063 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 58 | #1,465 | 35.1 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,991 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,676 | 25.5 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,808 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,629 | 25.4 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,897 | 18.8 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,725 | 21.8 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,586 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,410 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,767 | 18.9 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,230 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,162 | 13.0 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,945 | 15.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,131 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,137 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,080 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,408 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,269 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,226 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,200 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,070 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,505 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,362 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,314 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,899 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,236 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,564 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,275 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,324 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,472 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,222 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,177 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,940 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,219 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,189 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,970 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,816 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,450 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,969 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,993 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,944 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,373 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,113 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,429 | 12.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,963 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,821 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,310 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,831 | 18.4 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,288 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,079 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,586 | 4.8 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,698 | 10.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,561 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,206 | 15.1 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,024 | 16.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,850 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delena, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 2,173 Americans ever recorded as Delena. The median Delena alive today is 52 years old; half are between 33 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 1,561 people named Delena (1,553 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,735 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 | 69 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 407 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 545 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 338 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 228 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 103 |
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 16,086 babies since 1880, Delena is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 294 babies (2.0%), the seventh 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 Delena
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 Delena and names like it
- Compare Delena and DelanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDelena peaked in 1967.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delena since 1910.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Delena.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Delena alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.