Deliah
Deliah was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,380 among girls’ names; 1,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Deliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 12 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deliah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Deliah is “a female given name.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Delia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deliah?
#6,380 among girls’ names, 2025
Deliah fell from #5,163 in 2015 to #6,380 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 11.2 per million.
34 babies in 2011, the peak
Deliah peaked in 2011, when 34 girls were given it, #4,272 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,380 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,666 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,671 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,823 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,351 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,393 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,487 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,042 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,880 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,842 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,163 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,684 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,302 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,293 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,272 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,828 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,158 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,494 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,474 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,576 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,338 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,381 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,961 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,421 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,320 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,265 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,257 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,632 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,957 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,989 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,266 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,855 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,348 | 7.7 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,121 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,490 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,949 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,690 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,668 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,717 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,130 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,529 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,712 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,626 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,033 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,578 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,830 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,808 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,939 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,298 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,640 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,925 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,649 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,860 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,878 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,490 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,730 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,766 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,195 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,254 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,932 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,984 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,967 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,978 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,853 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,785 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,291 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,534 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,623 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,359 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,312 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,598 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,771 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,858 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,233 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,410 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,071 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,715 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,292 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,768 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,961 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,390 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,538 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,445 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,610 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,907 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,844 | 6.0 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,975 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,141 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,726 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,090 | 8.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,189 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,427 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,732 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,469 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,156 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,982 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,405 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,150 | 8.3 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,882 | 6.1 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,434 | 12.5 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,008 | 17.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,999 | 16.7 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,640 | 21.0 |
| 1883 | 6 | #845 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deliah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deliah, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,260 Americans ever recorded as Deliah. The median Deliah alive today is 26 years old; half are between 12 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,271 people named Deliah (1,267 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 946 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 127 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 142 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 282 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 291 |
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).
How common is the spelling Deliah?
Deliah is a less common spelling of Delia: SSA has recorded 1,260 Deliah and 37,380 Delia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 182,415 babies since 1880, Deliah is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 4,962 babies (<1%), 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 Deliah
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 Deliah and names like it
- Compare Deliah and DeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDeliah peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Deliah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Deliah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.